The Privy Council Office: Ethnic Media

Ethnic Media Dept: 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, according to The Star. In fact, both the minister of immigration and the prime minister have been quoted as saying that ethnic media sources are the new mainstream media and that more people follow ethnic media than mainstream sources, states the backgrounder in a May 2011 contract document 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. 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. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.