Christine Melnick: Government

Support Programs Dept: "The department communicates. I'm not continually monitoring this," Christine Melnick said, according to Winnipeg Free Press. One of the emails appeared to be targeted at non-profit agencies who are paid by the government to deliver support programs to immigrants, although it is unclear whether department staff received the email as well and wINNIPEG - More than a week after controversy erupted over a bureaucrat's email to immigrant groups, Manitoba's immigration minister was unable to say Tuesday who received the email and whether civil servants got an afternoon off to show support for the NDP government. Melnick has been on the hot seat over a debate she led in the legislature chamber April 19 in which she criticized the federal government's changes to immigration policy. The previous day, her department's assistant deputy minister, Ben Rempel, had sent out emails that invited people to watch the mid-afternoon debate. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.