Prime Minister Stephen Harper: Jason Kenney

Ethnic Media Dept: OTTAWA Citizenship and Immigration Canada isn t the only federal department spending hundreds of thousands of dollars keeping a keen eye on the country s ethnic media, according to The Chronicle Herald. The CIC contracts, obtained by The Canadian Press under access to information laws, make clear that Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his ethnic outreach minister Jason Kenney consider ethnic media critical sources of intelligence and the Privy Council Office, the bureaucracy that supports the prime minister, spent $463,300 last January on a two-year contract with the same ethnic media monitoring company that Citizenship has paid almost $750,000 over the past three years. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.