Just about 20 years ago, a Liberal named Scott Reid, who was party leader Paul Martin’s communications director, sneered at a campaign promise from Conservative Leader Stephen Harper. The Conservatives had proposed to give Canadian families $1,200 a year to spend on the child care of their choice — day homes, family members and friends or formal daycare.
Reid sneered during a CBC panel discussion that the payments would just turn out to be “25 bucks a week to blow on beer and popcorn.”
