By Mary Simpson

Jobs minister Pierre Poilievre is facing a chorus of derision for promising Canadian families “$1,000 in a single day” under the Harper Government’s Universal Child Care Benefit (UCCB), coming in the heels of the Tory minister’s misleading tweet citing a satirical twitter account for job numbers and another claiming that “hundreds of millions of” Canadian families were at risk of not receiving tax benefits.

“If you can’t do basic math and/or grammar, maybe you should quit and go back to school,” Bertrand Thibodeau replied to Poilievre’s tweet. “Fail!”

“Where’s my $30K cheque this month?” Brian Appel asked the The MP for Nepean-Carleton.

“One payment, once per year?,” Twitter user Watson asked. “Did u get this info from @stats_canada as well?”

Watson was referring to the Poilievre’s tweet on Friday where he boasted about Canada gaining 65,000 full time jobs in June citing a satirical twitter account while failing to mention the net job loss of 6,400 in that month owing to a loss of 71,000 part time positions.

“So-called Jobs Minister got the latest jobs number (another bad result) exactly wrong,” NDP Finance Critic and MP for Skeena – Bulkley Valley Nathan Cullen said. “He was reading a fake Stats Can account. Remember them using Kijijji to justify the Temporary Foreign Worker fiasco? And Harper says ‘trust me?’”

Poilievre had to hastily delete a tweet in April where he sounded the alarm about “hundreds of millions” of Canadian families being at the risk of not receiving tax benefits, even though Statistics Canada estimates the country’s total population to be 35.7 million as of June 2015.

Poilievre’s has been accused of using tax payer money to “flog” Harper Government’s child care benefits plan, which the opposition parties have panned as a blatant attempt at vote-buying after a report by the parliamentary budget officer showed that more than half of the $3 billion promised by the government this year will go to families with little or no child-care expenses.

“This is about vote-buying on the eve of an election,” Liberal MP Scott Brison said. “That’s what the Conservatives are doing with this.”

“Shameless vote buying:’$1,000 in a single day’” user always_vote tweeted. “You don’t care who you mislead with obfuscation. Worst government Canada ever had.”

“If you don’t have qualms about selling your next federal vote,” user Poulin tweeted. “the Conservatives have no qualms about buying them.”