UPDATED: Lib MP Bennett to stay-at-home moms: "Get a REAL job"

Thanks to reader "Bert", we now have the link to the full story, with the quote in context.

Ms. Guergis' status as one of the few women in high positions in the Harper government and her gender provoked no sympathy from Liberal women in the Commons whose job it is to shadow her actions in Cabinet and her performance in the job.

Ms. Guergis has established three "pillars" as the foundation for her plans to help women—increasing women's security and prosperity, ending violence against women, and enhancing women's leadership and democratic participation—and her record of 75 speeches and appearances since October 2008 suggests she has taken the role seriously. But the opposition says she is focusing on the symptoms of the issues women face, rather than root cause.

"You can have lists as long as your arm," said Ms. Bennett. "Women of Canada want to hear about early learning and child care; that is the key to their economic independence, to be able to get back to school, to get a real job, to be able to go to work."

And what of those women who WANT to stay at home, my dear Ms. Bennett? Who view the task of raising their OWN children to be well adjusted members of society AS their primary "JOB"?

Once again, this quote reveals the contrasts in how Liberals and Conservatives view issues here in Canada. You see, the Liberals typically believe that Canadians NEED the Government to step in with a "One Size Fits All" solution, which typically involves a TON of money and yet another huge bureaucracy, in order to deal with a problem. That is a "STATIST" mindset, one which I firmly REJECT.

Instead, we Conservatives typically believe that Canadians are for the most part capable in solving their own problems, so we instead try to give Canadians the tools they need to make these decisions FOR THEMSELVES.

Of course, there will be those who need additional help, so we should do what we can to help them. But by giving most Canadians the tools they need to help themselves, such as the Universal Child Benefit which helps the MAJORITY of Canadian families, we can then better focus our resources to helping the much smaller number of people who need more help, which will make better use of our resources and stretch our tax dollars that much further.

Ms. Bennett's comments only help to remind Canadians of this difference in VISION between our two parties. Conservatives want to help YOU make your own choices. Liberals want to TELL YOU HOW IT'S GOING TO BE, with even more Government intervention into society, and a massive Government agency that will employ thousands of their supporters, lobbyists, and friends.

UPDATE: The MSM is finally starting to pick up on it.