Parliamentary Privilege: Immigration

Speaker Of The House Of Commons Dept: The first option has everything going for it. It's dignified. And it would reassure Canadians that a minister fully grasps the principle of ministerial accountability and responsibility. A governing party should not want voters to be in any doubt about whether cabinet ministers understand their ethical obligations, according to Montreal Gazette. This week, Oda admitted that it was at her request that "not" was added and bev Oda, Canada's minister of international co-operation, has a choice: She could do the right thing and resign form cabinet now. Or she could wait until the speaker of the House of Commons makes a ruling on whether she is in breach of parliamentary privilege over conflicting testimony she gave to a House of Commons committee. The facts of the case don't leave much room for interpretation. In December, Oda testified before the Commons foreign-affairs committee that she had no idea who had inserted the word "not" into a government-agency document. Until "not" was added, the document, prepared by the Canadian International Development Agency, had approved giving more than $7 million to the ecumenical human-rights and aid group KAIROS. The addition of the word "not" made the document read as though CIDA had decided to cut off funding to the 35-year-old group and Oda had simply gone along with its recommendation. As reported in the news.
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