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OTTAWA — International Co-operation Minister Bev Oda is leaving politics at the end of the month. She announced Tuesday that she will no longer be an MP as of July 31.
According to a statement on her website, Oda told Prime Minister Stephen Harper two weeks ago that she would be retiring from politics, ending an eight-year career, the last five as the minister responsible for the Canadian International Development Agency.
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Oda has been a lightening rod for criticism, from her spending controversies that included a stay in London, U.K., at the swanky Savoy hotel — which included a $16 glass of orange juice — to inserting the word "not" into a memo from senior public officials that recommended funding a faith-based group.
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She is my home riding (before moving to Ottawa) MP and I am ecstatic to see her gone. Should have happened years ago. Of course, the most notable aspects of her political career were forging documents that eventually caused an election as well as her ridiculous spending to take limos for two blocks in Halifax and the hotel in England.
I imagine that this was a forced resignation. She was an embarassment to the party.