Hey! My friend (and loyal reader) Marie-Claude has been featured on the French-language public television show Infoman! This sarcastic and clever show makes fun of any people in the news who deserve it, for having done or said something stupid, being out-of-touch with the reality, having appeared especially vain... Needless to say, politicians are always widely discussed.
We Canadians are going through the last days before an election, and the forever geeky/boyish news anchor interviewed her in front of her house (just two blocks from mine!) about her having just received a congratulations card, handwritten by our current riding representative, for the birth of her two daughters. Good, all good, except her eldest is 2, and her youngest was born last winter!
Not a negative gesture at all, but such a blatantly electoral-minded one that it deserved to be mocked a little, I agree.
My friend mentioned that if he really would have been eager to please her and make a difference in her life, there was a whole list of things she would have appreciated more than the card. Number one would have been to have (government-subsidized) $7 a day daycare spots for her girls... Which brings me to say, once again: how lucky are we to have one?
We Canadians are going through the last days before an election, and the forever geeky/boyish news anchor interviewed her in front of her house (just two blocks from mine!) about her having just received a congratulations card, handwritten by our current riding representative, for the birth of her two daughters. Good, all good, except her eldest is 2, and her youngest was born last winter!
Not a negative gesture at all, but such a blatantly electoral-minded one that it deserved to be mocked a little, I agree.
My friend mentioned that if he really would have been eager to please her and make a difference in her life, there was a whole list of things she would have appreciated more than the card. Number one would have been to have (government-subsidized) $7 a day daycare spots for her girls... Which brings me to say, once again: how lucky are we to have one?
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How lucky you are! Rose was put on the waiting list when I was three months pregnant...I called the BILA (common waiting list for all daycares in the area) and Rose is the 48th on the list. According to the lady, I can hope to have a place for Rose in two years...when she'll turn 4. In the meantime, I'll have to pay 25$ a day for each girl when I'll go back to work in February...Ouch!
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