I kid you not:"The huge failure of Canadians is not to educate the children properly, and then why should we be surprised when they have mental illnesses or commit dreadful crimes?" she said.
This is why Easterners think Albertans are just a bunch of dumb hicks. (Not that we don't have our fair share of those here...)
Seriously, this woman is a trained nurse. And she's a former provincial minister of Health and Wellness. I kid you not (once again). Let's hope she never worked on a mental health ward. The stoopid. It hurts.
No wonder mental health services are so poor in this province. She probably thought that handing out flash cards with multiplication tables would automagically fix patients who needed help. On the other hand, she was too fucking cheap to even manage to do that.
And don't even get me started on this crap:
To raise children "properly" one parent should stay at home while the other goes to work, Alberta's finance minister suggested Wednesday.
In a tangent at the end of a speech on Alberta's economy to the Economic Club of Canada in Toronto, Iris Evans spoke about the importance of teaching kids about finances and how those lessons can be empowering.
After struggling with finances as a mother herself, Evans said, she made it her mission to teach her own children about money. Now, as adults with their own families, her kids have topped up RRSPs, live in good houses and have good savings, Evans said.
She also said good parenting means sacrificing some income to stay at home while kids are young, as her children have done.
"They've understood perfectly well that when you're raising children, you don't both go off to work and leave them for somebody else to raise," Evans said. "This is not a statement against daycare. It's a statement about their belief in the importance of raising children properly."
Iris Evans: Canada's Dr Laura. (And just as self-righteously annoying.)
Update:
Evans apologizes (but still stands by her cure for mental illnesses, apparently.)
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