With Harper lying through Dimitri Soudas' teeth, about not reopening the abortion issue, Bev Oda has confirmed that if Canadians are stupid enough to re-elect her government, she will restore funding if they promise to take away a woman's right to choose.
How noble.
International Cooperation Minister Bev Oda issued a statement Thursday suggesting that if Planned Parenthood applied for funding and did not request cash for abortions, it would receive money. “If Planned Parenthood submits an application that falls within the government’s parameters for the G8 Muskoka Initiative, there will be funding,” she said in the statement.
But Paul Bell, a spokesman with the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), said for the organization did ask for funding that did not including money for abortion and still hasn’t heard anything. For the first time in 40 years, it looked like Canada will not help fund the organization’s work, Bell told Postmedia News from London.
Personally I don't think Bev Oda should have been allowed to run at all. Only the election call saved her from having to face the consequences of her Contempt of Parliament charge for lying.
“Anyone who is not living under a rock is aware of it. It’s raised concerns in a lot of people’s minds,” says challenger Grant Humes, a political newcomer who hopes to snare the Tory stronghold for the Liberals. “People are saying, ‘I used to vote Conservative but I’m not this time.’”
It’s an unusual set of circumstances that has put a cabinet minister’s future in voters’ hands. In what became known as the “not” scandal.
She's trying to defend her position by producing two additional doctored documents. When others put their signature to an official contract it cannot be doctored AFTER THE FACT, unless they initial the changes.
Did I mention that she admitted to lying?
We pay her more than 200,000 a year plus perks. And this woman loves her perks.
A recent assessment by the Parliamentary budget officer, Kevin Page, shows that the Conservatives are once again in contempt of Parliament for not releasing the true costs of their enormous spending bills. Prisons, F-35s and corporate tax cuts.
The Fiscal Transparency report from Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page says the federal government has withheld crucial information about crime legislation and the multibillion-dollar planned purchase of F-35 fighter jets, and has put out questionable forecasts on the impact of coming corporate tax cuts.
It's like pulling teeth to get any information from this government or our media.
Bob Rae recently suggested root canal, to try and bore through the Bev Oda affair. So maybe we don't need auditors. Maybe what we need is a good dentist.
The Conservatives have received their scripts for handling the Bev Oda affair. But as David Akin says, not all of them are happy about it. This is becoming a pattern.
...this weekend, Conservative MPs got a much longer, more detailed Alerte-Info-Alert-bot memo about the situation involving International Development Minister Bev Oda, who stands accused by her political opponents of the serious charge of lying to Parliament. Some Conservative MPs have told me they are uneasy at best, and unhappy at worst, with the situation.
They have somehow been able to spin the story to suggest that she didn't lie after all. Phew! That was a close one. (yeah, I believe it)
Doesn't explain why Jason Kenney told a crowd in Israel that they had defunded KAIROS because they supported sanctions against Israel. They didn't. He got them mixed up with someone else.
This could very well have an impact on Conservative support from the Christian community. I don't mean the Religious Right who are judgemental kooks, but legitimate Christians. Those who care about the same things that KAIROS care about. Social justice and human decency.
Our government's blind support of Israel, that borders on the fanatical, is costing us. Haroon Siddiqui has an excellent column in the Toronto Star, that shows how, not only in terms of losing our respectability in the world, but also in dollars and cents. Well worth a read.
THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH BEV ODA. Of course she baldly lied, just as Jason Kenney lied about Kairos policy on Israel and Tony Clement lied when he claimed Statscan approved his crusade against the long-form census. This government lies as routinely as it maligns, and it never apologizes. But Ms. Oda, like Messrs. Kenney and Clement, is just the organ grinder's monkey. Any CIDA minister would have been in the same boat. She just follows orders. And it's those orders in the Kairos case that remind us of the real Harper agenda.
The issue here is the reversal, by Stephen Harper, of a 60-year consensus shared by all previous governments about the central role of civil society in Canada. Every previous government has funded civil society groups and NGOs even when they espoused policies that contradicted the government's own. Governments might have done so grudgingly and not as generously as some of us hoped. But it has been one of the quiet glories of Canadian democracy that our governments have often backed groups that criticized them or had competing priorities. No more. With Stephen Harper, you either buy the party line or you get slapped down.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper kicked Maxime Bernier out of cabinet after he left secret documents in his girlfriend’s apartment. He booted Helena Guergis from not only cabinet but also the Tory caucus for unspecified “serious allegations” after the Star probed her husband’s business dealings.
So why is Harper going to the wall to save International Cooperation Minister Bev Oda? She is in danger of being held in contempt of Parliament, a grave matter, after bungling a government decision to deny funding to the Christian aid agency KAIROS. Yet Harper is resisting calls to remove her from cabinet.
A recent assessment 
So if she is covering 
