Bev Oda: Do you agree with how the prime minister has handled the Oda affair?
- February 18, 2011 2:25 PM |
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Bev Oda rises to answer a question directed her way during Question Period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill on Thursday. (Adrian Wyld/Canadian Press)
By CBC News
Opposition MPs attempted to link the Prime Minister's Office to controversy over an altered foreign aid document, as they wrapped up a week of attacks against the government.
MPs took up most of question period Friday to focus on the decision to alter a document signed by International Co-operation Minister Bev Oda that denied funding for Canadian foreign aid agency Kairos.
The word "not" was added to a signed agreement that would have provided $7 million to the organization.
Liberal MP Rodger Cuzner accused Prime Minister Stephen Harper of forcing Oda to make the change.
"His [Harper's] DNA is all over this crime scene," Cuzner said.
"The big hand of PMO comes down and it's got a pen in it, and that pen writes across this application 'not'.... Does he put up with this minister because it was he who put her up to it in the first place?"
NDP MP Libby Davies asked whether accountability is meaningless to the government.
Government House leader John Baird took most of the questions directed to Oda, who wasn't in the Commons. He continued to argue Oda's decision was the right one, sidestepping the question of whether she should step down.
"This minister made the right decision to support the most vulnerable people in the world," Baird said.
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