Hawn's team sent envelopes to homes in the riding with a message inside that states: "If you were a friend of the Liberals, this envelope would be full of cash."
Hawn is trying to win the seat from Deputy Prime Minister Anne McLellan, who has won the riding four times, always in close races.
Keith Dannaker, who has a McLellan sign on his lawn, says the mail-out is insulting.
"It implies that as a friend of the Liberals, I'm taking envelopes full of cash and I thought it was a strange thing for someone of Mr. Hawn's stature to be doing," he said. "But there are some things that are so dumb that it's not worthy of my time."
Hawn, who lost to McLellan in the 2004 contest by about 700 votes, says it's a fair reminder.
"It's a bit of a humorous, tongue-in-cheek reminder of the sponsorship scandal and the fact that Canadians were defrauded of millions of dollars," Hawn said. "But we should all be insulted with what the Liberals have done to us in the last 12 years."
Hawn said the envelopes weren't meant to insult anyone.
In 2004, 26 of Alberta's 28 seats were won by the Conservatives. The Liberals won two, but Edmonton MP David Kilgour left the party to sit as an Independent.
