No doubt Stephen Harper’s migraine is starting grow as he flashes back to 2004, after controversial comments by Brian Pallister. Pallister, it seems, felt it would be a barrel of laughs to call his non-answer a “woman’s decision“.

But, not to be outdone, Scott Reid has jumped into the gaffe pool by claiming that parents will blow their Tory child care cheques on “beer and popcorn“. Reid does have a point on this one. Who knows what a parent might spend their cash on? Perhaps they’ll spend it all on Medisys or Cargojet income trusts.

But, at the very least, one of the perks of having a unilingual communications director is that he can only make boneheaded comments in one language, so at least he won’t be making any gaffes to cost Canada the referendum election.

UPDATE: As a die hard Liberal, let me just say I’m quite distraught to see Paul conceeding defeat already:

He went on to say: “There’s no doubt in my mind that parents are going to use it for the benefit of their families. They’re going to use that money in a way that I’m sure is responsible. Let there be no doubt about that.”

On a serious note, by having Martin get up and admit that the money will be spent responsibly, he’s really painted himself into a corner on this one. Harper is going to have fun with those comments come Thursday and Friday at the debates .

Oh…and I just realized Paul was on a wine tasting tour when he made the appology. Too good…