Prime Minister Stephen Harper: Thomas Saras

Canada Dept: While minority-language publications remain anonymous to most Canadians, their combined readership is in the millions -- more than the country's largest daily newspapers, according to CBC. Canada's ethnic newspapers and magazines -- often one-person operations typed up in the homes of recent immigrants -- are now hoping to raise their game even higher and canada's increasingly influential ethnic-press industry will seek a financial boost from the upper levels of government to better its business and journalistic know-how. Prime Minister Stephen Harper, right, listens as master of the ceremonies Thomas Saras hosts a gala dinner at a professional development seminar for the National Press and Media Council of Canada in 2009. Saras is asking for federal and provincial government funding for future training seminars for multicultural journalists. Nathan Denette/Canadian Press The ethnic press also wields clout inside the Prime Minister's Office, where, more than ever, the industry is viewed as a coveted conduit to the multicultural vote. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.