The Canadian International Development Agency: CIDA

Julian Fantino Dept: Two provocatively partisan letters by Julian Fantino, the minister responsible for the Canadian International Development Agency, were pulled from CIDA's website late Tuesday after they raised a stir on social media, according to Winnipeg Free Press. To reinforce the point, the director general of CIDA's communications branch was proactively calling media outlets Wednesday to apologize for what he called a "genuine mistake" by his staff and oTTAWA - Opposition MPs say it's time for Parliament to take a critical look at the politicization of the public service following the latest example of a Conservative minister overstepping the bounds of bureaucratic neutrality. A spokesman for the minister said the two letters which attacked the NDP and Liberals, respectively were posted "in error" by departmental officials and that bureaucrats had been asked to remove them immediately. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.