Oda takes 14 weeks to answer one question, NDP likens it to pulling teeth, calls her minister of ‘weasel words’

International Cooperation Minister Bev Oda insists she was being truthful, providing all the facts and had never intended to mislead Parliament.

It took International Cooperation Minister Bev Oda 14 weeks to finally tell a Commons committee who altered the infamous memo denying $7-million for the human rights group Kairos and—when she finally did—her explanation only fuelled opposition claims that she misled Parliament and sho...

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