NDP math - One or the other equals both.

We all know that the Liberals campaigned to set up a national day care program and the Tories countered with their $1200 to families for each child under six. Most voters understood that it was going to be one or the other. Then there's Olivia Chow.


NDP opposes scrapping Liberals' national daycare program

OTTAWA - The minority Tory government's promised $1,200 children's allowance must not be implemented at the expense of ending funding deals with the provinces to create new child-care spaces, New Democratic Party MP Olivia Chow said yesterday. "We can do both," said Ms. Chow, a newly elected Toronto MP. "The $1,200 is a family allowance. It is fine. It helps parents." The NDP also has "no problem" with the Tory proposal to provide $250-million a year worth of tax credits to businesses and community groups that create child-care spaces, Ms. Chow said. "It's a win-win situation," she added, as long as the Conservative program doesn't "replace" the $5-billion the former Liberal government had agreed to channel to the provinces to begin building a national daycare program. NDP opposition to abandoning the deals with the provinces fuels a growing belief the new government could be headed for a showdown over its child-care plans -- both inside and outside the Commons. Quebec and Ontario are already leading what could become a bigger provincial revolt over Prime Minister Stephen Harper's plans to cancel existing child-care deals with the provinces on March 31, 2007.

Why not do both? Why not throw in government funded minivans for multiple child families too? Sadly, this is only the beginning of Olivia's reign of error.

This is also a small glimpse of why the Nationally Destructive Policy (NDP) gets their ass handed to them in every election.