BEAMSVILLE, Ont. - Prime Minister Paul Martin tried yesterday to stem voter backlash after a senior aide publicly criticized the Conservative child-care policy as flawed because it could allow parents to use their child-care benefits to simply buy "beer and popcorn." Scott Reid, Mr. Martin's director of communications, quickly retracted the comment but the Liberal leader was still left trying to clean up the mess. At a campaign stop at a southern Ontario winery, he was thrown off stride in promoting his theme for the day -- the economy -- and forced to answer questions about the appropriateness of Mr. Reid's remarks.
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