Ambrose was a joke.
Every two-working-parents family in Canada, with toddlers, could use a national day care plan.
In 2005, the Liberals set aside $7 billion to get the ball rolling.
As the columnist points out, Ambrose loudly opposed the Liberal plan.
Her party's idea, that she pushed relentlessly?  give families a $2,000 a year tax break for one parent to stay at home.
In 2005, Ambrose made about $150,000 a year as an MP, and had no children.
Only someone totally clueless could think a $2,000 a year tax break could replace the income from a working spouse. But that is Ambrose and her unbending libertarian bent. 
Dryden was a "boring old white guy"  even in his thirties.  But his day care plan would have helped Canadian families.
Ambrose, now with her big gov't pension, can go to the right-wing think tank and spend her time thinking of more ways to funnel money to the 1 per cent.