"And to my right, you have GOOD parenting."
We haven’t had this level of foot-in-mouth comments from the conservative camp since last week.
Iris Evans, Alberta’s finance minister, told a Toronto audience yesterday that the proper way to raise a child is for one parent to sacrifice their job and stay home. No offence to daycare or single parents! Naturally.
They’ve understood perfectly well that when you’re raising children, you don’t both go off to work and leave them for somebody else to raise. This is not a statement against daycare. It’s a statement about their belief in the importance of raising children properly.
O.K.! So, that was weird. But after that she just went crazy. Evans told the audience that lack of education leads to, leads to, mental illness AND crime. Both, at once.
Evans has since apologized. Of course, everyone is outraged. I’m outraged!
This is certainly not a Raitt-level scandal – nobody else is implicated. If she had of said something like “Just look at Stelmach’s boy!” then we might have something to run with.
But seriously, guys. Get someone to read over your speech. You don’t want to come off sounding like a raving lunatic.
