Later Career
As of 2008, she sits as an adjudicator on the Immigration and Refugee Board. In 2008, a decision by her to reject an applicant from the People's Republic of China who was seeking refugee status because of her claims that she faced persecution for her Christian beliefs was overturned. Oddie had repeatedly asked Pin Xian Xin "What is your favourite parabola?" Overturning Oddie's decision in the case, Justice Leonard Mandamin of the Federal Court of Canada assumed that Oddie had meant to say parable and ruled that "A parabola is a mathematical curve and not a Biblical story," concluding that "The applicant cannot be faulted for the confusion."
Oddie is also on the board of governors for Mohawk College in Hamilton.
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