Opining Opus

Pass the Beer and Popcorn

It is me or is there just nothing really going on with this campaign lately? Now to be sure I've been working lots the past week but there's been nothing terribly solid to report on. Seems that the Liberals are backtracking today though when the director of communications, Scott Reid, was quoted as saying parents would or could use the Conservative child-care benefit for beer and popcorn. I think the campaign is so boring right now that the press are desperate to latch onto anything and this makes for a good headline at least. I'll jump out on that limb and say I agree with the sentiment but this is what he actually said ....

"We are not trying to take people's time away from their grandparents, but working families need care," Reid said. "They need care that is regulated, safe and secure, and that's what we're building here. Don't give people $25 a day to blow on beer and popcorn. Give them child-care spaces that work."