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Okay, we're all having fun with this, and I'm pretty sure that Mme Fortier thought that it was a lighthearted deflection of a question she can't or won't answer.

But it's another indication of how upper-middle-class people mistake themselves for the middle class 1/
Hockey is expensive: theglobeandmail.com/news/national/…

People with median incomes have to squeeze themselves dry to pay for a kid in hockey; it's a sport for the upper-middle-class. 2/
Add this to the so-called "Middle-Class Tax Cut" (which most benefited the top decile of the income distribution, and helped the median not at all), and you have a government who talks about the middle class, but talks to the upper-middle-class. 3/
This is getting past a joke. 4/4
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