Daycare

My ire was peaked this morning listening to Ken Dryden, Minister of What?

This guy couldn’t have expressed a more paternalistic attitude and his outright undemocratic and accusatory remarks against parents. He stated on CTV this morning that the Conservative platform on child care makes “no difference in the behavior of parents – it is not childcare”.

Where did this guy come from? He just, against all legal rights, equated all Canadian parents that don’t go for their Liberal plan as bad parents and potential child abusers. He is so way out in left field it’s almost as if he was back on the ice trying to instigate a violent physical fight.

This guy should ibe immediately be removed from this Ministerial position - whatever that is.

His characteristically Liberal paternalistic attitude couldn’t be more obvious. He has devalued the work of women by devaluing motherhood by having a platform that will force women to put their children in state run daycare centres. He also openly devalued a child’s right to bond with their parent by being care for at home . How dare he take away the choice of women and parents?

Women’s organizations have fought for the right to be valued for their role as mothers for years and this ignoramous is imposing more oppression on women. The Liberals and this misogynist have listened to nothing women have been complaining about for 12 years while the Liberals were in their position of power.

This is the first time that motherhood and/or fatherhood has been recognized in this country by the Conservative platform and this idiot has just gone beyond the gates of common decency. Every family has a right to have their children taken care of by their family if that is their choice. Every family has a right to choose whether or not they wish to enjoy the benefits of parenthood, if that is their choice. Every family has the right to choose the type of daycare that they believe will benefit of the social development of their child, if that is their choice.

Forcing parents into state run childcare spaces is not democratic. Democracy means “of the people” not more oppression by a government telling them how to raise their children or interfere with their lives.

Dryden, Minister of What? just stated publicly that a parent is going to stop working to benefit from a $1000 tax benefit. This man is totally out to lunch – perhaps too many pucks to the face made him that way. First he assumed that parents will quite working, and second he attempted to minimalize the amount that parents would receive. He should have been more accurate at least getting the amount of $3600/year correct.

Motherhood is work and they should be enumerated for it.

What he doesn’t get is those women or men have a choice whether or not to stay home to raise their children. Is Dryden, Minister of What? stating that either parent has to be forced to go to work at the expense of their children? This incredible devaluing just underlines a typical paternalistic insensitivity.

It has just also become clear to me that state forced employment seems a little like the previous U.S.S.R.

Perhaps we are seeing the Liberals hidden agenda surfacing, now that they have the public support of that antidemocratic organization called the C.A.W. If any group is going to benefit from state run daycare, it’s their members, who have their own daycare centres that no other citizen can use unless you’re a CAW member! If that’s not discriminatory I don’t know what is.

I can see these daycare centres becoming a financial quagmire just like hospitals are now. Yet the federal Liberals expect the provinces to be generous when it comes to the money they are given. How often have provinces not utilized public funding for healthcare appropriately using most of that money to fund the buidling of hospitals and not using it for actual healthcare? So the feds want daycare to turn into the same thing? I can see all that money going into building daycare centres and not into childcare.

If the Conservative plan is used, this diverts the money directly to the parents of Canada, where they have control over their lives to the benefit of their children – not the government telling them how hey should or shouldn’t be lving it.

Mr. Dryden, Minister of What? perhaps you need to be reminded we live in a “free society” where we have free choice. Perhaps you should start reading some human rights legislation or the Charter and educate yourself on what discrimination really is.