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Bev Oda and Kairos: What is 'not' being achieved now

Kairos worker Caroline Foster shows off a new t-shirt poking fun at the decision to order that the word "not" be inserted on a government document that ended a 36-year funding arrangement with the church-backed aid organization. Photo: Kairos/Nik Beeson

Lost in the politics around the now-infamous "not" which cost my organization Kairos its funding is the impact on Kairos' programming and partnerships overseas.

The debate raging in the Canadian Parliament and the media -- while teaching interesting lessons to Canadians about parliamentary procedure, including the possible censure of a member of the government -- isn't directly helping women in the Democratic Republic of Congo, or children in Colombia, or citizens in the future state in South Sudan.

In fact, the decision to cut funding to our overseas work is doing the opposite.

Here is an example of how Kairos can help:

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Kairos case is a reminder of the real Harper agenda

By Gerry Caplan
| February 20, 2011

What happens when the smartest man in the room (by his own estimation) proves too clever by half? What happens when a one-man band puts on a third-rate show? What happens when a "brilliant strategist" is so full of uncontrollable resentment and meanness that he keeps getting himself in trouble by interfering where he has no business?

Whenever it appears that Stephen Harper may be closer to that elusive goal of majority government, along comes Stephen Harper to remind suspicious Canadians they're dead right to be suspicious. That's what the Bev Oda fiasco is really about.

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