Ben Rempel: Daryl Reid

Immigration Department Dept: Reid has rejected a complaint from the Opposition Progressive Conservatives stemming from a debate on immigration last week , according to CBC. The Tories cried foul because the immigration department's assistant deputy minister, Ben Rempel, had sent out an email the previous day, suggesting agency workers and immigrants feel free to take the afternoon off to watch the debate and manitoba government workers and immigrant groups who received a controversial email from a senior bureaucrat suggesting they attend a debate may have felt undue pressure, but the email did not constitute a violation of opposition rights, legislature Speaker Daryl Reid ruled Thursday. Upwards of 150 people came to the Manitoba legislature on April 19 in support of the provincial nominee program. Hundreds of immigrants and government-funded non-profit agency workers filled the public gallery to show support for a government motion that criticized federal changes to immigration programs . (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.