from cbc.ca on February 15, 2011...
"The agency had recommended that Kairos should get $7 million, and the fact the document was "doctored" — a "not" was inserted to change its meaning — drew a strong rebuke from Speaker Peter Milliken. Oda's reversal came just before the House foreign affairs committee voted to find the matter a point of privilege. It is writing a report on Oda's earlier testimony, will discuss it Wednesday and then send to the House. "Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2011/02/14/oda-kairos-021411.html#ixzz1E1oGiAxf
We put up with a government that lies on a regular basis.
So....Minister Bev Oda has owned up to having inserted the word "not" in the sentence "...has...approved...the application" of Canada's church collective, Kairos, for their application for funding to feed, provide water and education to people who have little of these (not in Canada, but in nations on the African continent).
She was accused of misleading parliament, she denied it, denied it, and has now owned up to "misleading parliament."
When we are bringing up our children, we call this LYING. Our children pay the price. We don't allow lying, and rightly so.
Keep the pressure on, everyone! She should resign.
The Prime Minister, reportedly a Christian man, should stop lying to the Canadian people.
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