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Human Resources Minister Diane Finley says there's nothing wrong with choosing day care, but parents should have other options.
"We believe that [parents] should have a choice in their child care," Finley told the House of Commons Friday.
Finley had been criticized for a comment she made in the House of Commons Thursday, suggesting that the Liberal Party "wanted to ensure that parents were forced to have other people raise their children."
Earlier Thursday, the Liberals had promised to revive the national child care program the Conservatives scrapped five years ago in favour of a monthly $100 cheque for parents with children under six.
Liberal MP Bob Rae called Finley's initial assertion "the most bizarre comment.
"The notion somehow that child care is some form of alien abduction is just completely preposterous."
-reprinted from CBC News