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   Hello Ward!   
      
    AA>> WD> Amazing, that discussion has already been had here ... my   
    AA>> WD> very wife was in such a program for close to 10 years   
    AA>> WD> where she was paid as a stay-at-home mam.   
      
    AA>> Your income to support her wasn't good enough?   
      
    WD> Why do I need to support a female? Are you still at the   
    WD> "Daddy brings home the bacon" level? That's pre-historic.   
      
   Some companies in Canada do offer a maternity leave and     
   compensations. The gov't does too - for up to 6 months if I     
   recall, or even up to a year.   
      
   Paternity leave is also now a thing.   
      
   Here in Canada there are clever persons just fine with the     
   gov't supporting their predicaments as unwed/single parent, no-    
   income, etc.   
      
      
    WD> The system is pretty straightforward. [...]   
    WD> [...] When the stay-at-home person returns to the   
    WD> job, the fill-in person has had the opportunity to get   
    WD> work-experience and stands a better chance of applying for   
    WD> a job ...   
      
    WD> Some people call it a win-win ...   
      
   Some of the new dads or mams don't even bother returning to     
   their previous employer, and basically run with the money.   
      
   I was asked by a previous employee to keep her on the payroll     
   long enough so that she could qualify for the minimum 52 weeks     
   of employment when I bought a business in which she was     
   previously employed.  She got her gov't-paid maternity leave,     
   so did her partner, and she never returned to work (either it     
   was her choice or simply a logistical matter after she had     
   moved to be closer to her mother).  It wasn't a win-win for me     
   at all.   
      
    AA>> Enough to know that regular consumption is not good for the   
    AA>> body.   
      
    WD> Canadian beer is very good at cleansing the urinary tract.   
      
   Yeah.. perhaps that is needed to remove the sludge that your     
   altenative beers create.   
      
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