Minister's CIDA Comments Stir Anger

Published June 3, 2009

Officials within CIDA, already suffering from low morale, have latched onto comments made by Minister Bev Oda to Embassy last week, describing them as a misrepresentation of the aid agency and demonstrative of either her failure to understand what the organization is doing, or her contempt for it.

Meanwhile, there are emerging doubts over the government's apparent plans to overhaul the aid agency given not only resistance within...