Jason Kenney: Election Campaign

Immigration Minister Jason Kenney Dept: OTTAWA - The Department of Citizenship and Immigration spent almost $750,000 monitoring ethnic media over the past three years, including assessments of election campaign events and "perceptions" of minister Jason Kenney, according to Winnipeg Free Press. Those contracts state they were for work "monitoring key words and issues related to the department's mandate." Immigration Minister Jason Kenney responds to a question during Question Period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Thursday, November 1, 2012. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick A series of contracts from March 2009 through May 2012 cost taxpayers $745,050, according to documents obtained by The Canadian Press under access to information law. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.