Parents are dumb: Liberals

A top Liberal strategist is suggesting Canadian parents could blow their child-care money on beer and popcorn under a funding proposal championed by Stephen Harper and the Conservatives.

Scott Reid, Prime Minister Paul Martin's director of communications, says there's nothing in the Harper plan to make sure that cash allowances intended to pay for day care would actually be spent for that purpose.

Reid says parents could take the cash windfall and spend it on anything they want - including beer and popcorn.

That's right Scott - you can't control us lazy, know nothing parents. Maybe we think beer is good for kids! Popcorn certainly is.

If only someone would come up with a plan where parents don't get a say, where a whole new level of government administration is required, and families with a stay at home parent, rural parents, and shift working parents, don't really benefit.

Oh wait, someone did.

Update: Paul Wells rightly points out that giving parents money has been the Liberal policy until just recently. Martin has acknowledged this as well. An interesting debate.