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Jason Kenney: The Department Of Citizenship And Immigration

Immigration Minister Jason Kenney Dept: OTTAWA - Civil servants in the Department of Citizenship and Immigration had to scramble to make the case for preserving some refugee health-care benefits destined for the government's cost-cutting axe, newly released documents show, according to Winnipeg Free Press. The series of emails and memos released under Access to Information laws seem to contradict Kenney's assertion in June that benefits for resettled refugees were never meant to be axed and citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Minister Jason Kenney speaks in Ottawa, Wednesday December 19, 2012. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld And they were forced into a last-minute pitch to Immigration Minister Jason Kenney to save part of the interim federal health program, despite having argued some eight months earlier that the proposed policy was flawed. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.