Tuesday, March 26, 2013  The four letter word that is wife   I
think there are things that a genuinely controversial, and then
there are what I call "small c controversies"... things that
people really desperately want to blow out of proportion.  Case
in point, a Tory cabinet minister named Keith Ashfield recently
had breakfast at the home of family. You know, one of those
adorable photo ops that politicians seem to think is just so
adorable (this is something all parties do, BTW).  At this
breakfast, he complimented one family's young girls. She had
made some bread, he ate it, thought it was delicious and told
her she would make a great wife one day.   This article further
explains the fall out. How typical. The NDP is upset. The NDP
demands the Tory minister for the Status of Women apologize for
the comments her fellow MP made. Typical rhetoric.  Anyway, the
young girl in question took to Keith Ashfield's Facebook page
and said (and I am paraphrasing here, but her post is in the
above article) hey, I wasn't