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Housewives vs. Harper: Madelaine should run the country

While having coffee with a group of people recently, an old thought popped into mind. Gary is a coffee and blueberry buddy and younger brother of Tom, a friend from my Grade 10 days.
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While having coffee with a group of people recently, an old thought popped into mind.

Gary is a coffee and blueberry buddy and younger brother of Tom, a friend from my Grade 10 days. I explained to the group what I thought of the good work that women, specifically housewives, like Gary’s mother, do for our country.

A woman with only her husband’s income raises two or three children, who go on to university/college and become productive citizens.

In the case of my friends Tom, and his younger brother, Gary, a member of our coffee klatsch, their mother raised five children on her husband’s income as a hard-rock miner.

Women such as Madelaine should run the country, as they understand applied economics, unlike so many useless men found in political power in Ottawa, and elsewhere.

In the case of Stephen Harper, it took almost a decade to balance the books, and that was through juggling and finagling. And those Tories are always babbling on about how they are the most fiscally prudent.

Canada has tens of thousands of such women, and I have more confidence in them than in the Old Boys Clubs that have run Canada all my life-time, and before.

Esa Hermikari
Sudbury