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Commons Foreign Affairs Committee: Initial Recommendation

Parliamentary Rules Dept: The word "NOT" was written into the text regarding funding for Kairos, so the initial recommendation of giving money was reversed, according to CTV. The House of Commons foreign affairs committee has voted 6-4 in support of a motion rebuking Oda, and is asking the Speaker to rule if parliamentary rules were breached and international Co-operation Minister Bev Oda admitted that she ordered a document to be doctored to deny funding to the church-backed aid group Kairos. "The 'not' was inserted at my direction," Ms. Oda said in the House of Commons Monday. "Given the way the document was formatted allowing only for concurrence this was the only way to reflect my decision." As reported in the news.
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