Why the not?

Keith Beardsley, a former member of Stephen Harper’s PMO, sorts through the Oda Affair.

Keith Beardsley, a former member of Stephen Harper’s PMO, sorts through the Oda Affair.

If the minister instructed someone to insert the “not” then she was probably under pressure to do so as a last minute attempt to stop the funding from going forward. Oda has been a minister long enough to know that simply refusing to sign the letter stops the funding process.