{"id":610,"date":"2005-12-11T16:18:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-11T21:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=610"},"modified":"2005-12-11T16:18:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-11T21:18:00","slug":"two-more-for-the-gaffe-pool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=610","title":{"rendered":"Two More for the Gaffe Pool"},"content":{"rendered":"

No doubt Stephen Harper’s migraine is starting grow as he flashes back to 2004, after controversial comments by Brian Pallister. Pallister, it seems, felt it would be a barrel of laughs to call his non-answer a “woman’s decision<\/a>“.<\/p>\n

But, not to be outdone, Scott Reid has jumped into the gaffe pool <\/a>by claiming that parents will blow their Tory child care cheques on “beer and popcorn<\/a>“. Reid does have a point on this one. Who knows what a parent might spend their cash on? Perhaps they’ll spend it all on Medisys or Cargojet income trusts.<\/p>\n

But, at the very least, one of the perks of having a unilingual communications director is that he can only make boneheaded comments in one language, so at least he won’t be making any gaffes to cost Canada the referendum election.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: <\/u><\/em><\/strong>As a die hard Liberal, let me just say I’m quite distraught to see Paul conceeding defeat <\/a>already:<\/p>\n

He went on to say: “There’s no doubt in my mind that parents are going<\/strong> to use it for the benefit of their families. They’re going<\/strong> to use that money in a way that I’m sure is responsible. Let there be no doubt about that.”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

On a serious note, by having Martin get up and admit that the money will be spent responsibly, he’s really painted himself into a corner on this one. Harper is going to have fun with those comments come Thursday and Friday at the debates .<\/p>\n

Oh…and I just realized Paul was on a wine tasting tour when he made the appology. Too good…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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