She may not know a lot about delivering balanced budgets, but Alberta’s Finance Minister Iris Evans knows how you should be raising your children:

She reportedly said good parenting means sacrificing some income to stay at home when kids are young, which 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 told the audience. “This is not a statement against day care. It’s a statement about their belief in the importance of raising children properly.”

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“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 asked.