The Privy Council Office: Citizenship

Citizenship And Immigration Canada Dept: The Privy Council Office, which provides bureaucratic support to the prime minister, spent $463,300 last January on a two-year contract with the same monitoring firm that was paid almost $750,000 by Citizenship over the past three years, according to Winnipeg Free Press. They're quoted as calling it more important than mainstream press and 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. Background material attached to the contract awarded by Citizenship notes both Immigration Minister Jason Kenney and Prime Minister Stephen Harper place high value on ethnic media. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.