Joyce Murray copies Marc Garneau’s #eap13 talking points

Liberal leadership candidate Joyce Murray might be lacking original thinking on the 2013 budget. She copied former leadership candidate Marc Garneau’s tweet.

#eap13: Download Jim Flaherty’s 2013 Budget

UPDATE: Lockup is over, check below for the files

Asking yourself “where can I download the budget”? You’ll be able to do that here at 4pm today after budget lockup when Finance Minister Jim Flaherty starts giving his 2013 Budget Speech from the floor of the house of Commons.

They’re giving us a USB key of all of the budget documents in lockup and I will post them here for you to download as soon as they give us back our mobile internet devices.

The #eap13 budget speech will be given from the House of Commons and will be broadcast along with SpeechPLUS which is supposedly a pop-up video style of presentation with charts and bullet points live while the Finance Minister outlines the budget.

The 2013 Budget:

Choice in Childcare hops across the pond

Email from David Cameron today:

The Guardian publishes what is of course proposed on the other side of the debate,

Beverley Hughes, children’s minister under Labour and now in the Lords, has issued an admirable “mea culpa”. She says that Labour got it wrong when it focused on putting money into the hands of parents via, for instance, tax credits rather than investing in the supply side and ensuring the stability and sustainability of providers while working to improve the qualifications of the childcare workforce. She advocates a universal free childcare offer for every child aged one to five. The [Guardian’s] Observer supports her view.

The UK announcement is reminiscent of the political history of the childcare debate in Canada. A national childcare program was proposed by the Liberals in 1993 but was not implemented. When the topic came up again in the first half of the last decade as a renewed Liberal promise to create a new entitlement program, the Tories offered up their “Choice in Childcare” program in their platform instead, allowing a $100 payment to parents per month for each child under age 6.