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Human Smugglers: Asylum System

Minister Of Immigration Dept: Kenney is keeping his day job as Minister of Immigration, but his added responsibility from the Prime Minister is to act as Chair of the Conservative Government operations committee. It acts within the government almost like an executive committee of cabinet and every major government initiative has to be cleared with the committee before it can happen. Kenney told Question Period this Sunday the new job will keep him Ottawa-bound more than he was in the past, according to CTV. Many are speculating about the future character of the majority Harper government. Kenney contends it will be a mainstream government focused on the economy and not, he seemed to indicate, on Conservative social causes. The Conservatives clearly are aware that many Canadians in the past parliament viewed the government as too driven by ideology, and that they did not elect them to carry out social experimentation and jason Kenney does not think he should be called Deputy Prime Minister, even though the additional role given to him in the new cabinet does in a way put him in that position. As for his role as Immigration Minister, Kenney insists he is pressing ahead with changes in that will make life a lot tougher for human smugglers and, on a broader basis, will also tighten the rules to keep illegal refugee claimants from exploiting Canada's asylum system. As reported in the news.
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