Linda Duncan: Prime Minister Stephen Harper

Security Intelligence Review Committee Dept: Alberta NDP MP Linda Duncan rose during Friday's question period in the House of Commons to ask whether the Harper government was investigating after Strahl spoke out in defence of the work of the centre earlier this week, according to CBC. "If Duncan has concerns with municipal affairs in Calgary, she should raise those with the appropriate municipal authorites," replied Immigration Minister Jason Kenney, filling in for the absent Prime Minister Stephen Harper in question period's early rounds and Chuck Strahl, the former Conservative cabinet minister who now chairs the Security Intelligence Review Committee, should not also be serving as a director for Calgary's Manning Centre, the NDP says. Calgary developers have donated to the Manning Centre "to support their pro-development candidates," Duncan told the Commons, describing Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi as having "blown the whistle" on the true intent of the donations . Strahl's defence of the centre's activities was inappropriate because in his oversight role chairing the Security Intelligence Review Committee SIRC , he's banned from political activity, she suggested. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.