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Friday, December 16
This isn't to suggest that I've been sitting here stewing about the beer and popcorn comment since I last posted, because I haven't, but I found the following passage in a book I am reading interesting:
There were simple gestures, too. During their years as opposition MPPs, Peterson and Nixon (David Peterson, the former Liberal premier of Ontario along with his treasurer, Robert Nixon) had seen far too many poor families suffer through miserable winters, unable to afford adequate winter clothing for their children. The premier remembered "Cathy" and what he'd been able to do for her.
"When you proceed up the ladder into cabinet and you get to be first minister, you say, well if I could do that for Cathy, why can't I do that for two hundred thousand people?" Peterson says.
So he did. Poor families received a bonus cheque so they could buy winter coats for their kids.
"Some people will say, 'I'm not going to give it to them, they'll drink it up in beer,'" Peterson acknowledges. "I'm not saying some people didn't go out and buy beer. Maybe they did. But I think probably a bunch of kids got coats they wouldn't have got."
The book is The Dark Side: The Personal Life of A Political Life by journalist Steve Paikin. Good book. posted by Duncan @ 7:32 AM
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