We expect ministers to conduct themselves with the highest standard of honesty. She misled the foreign affairs committee when she said she didn't know who put in the word “not”. She was on the phone to her chief of staff saying, “Cancel the Kairos funding.”
A fulsome answer to Mr. McKay's question at the foreign affairs committee would have been, “I don't know who actually pencilled in the word “not”, but I directed Stephanie Machel to do it.” That would have been a fulsome, honest answer--none of this splitting hairs and weaseling around.
You should be the minister of weasel words, instead of the minister of CIDA. You're disappointing us profoundly.