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Mavis Taillieu: Brian Pallister

Brian Pallister: Opposition Progressive Conservative Leader Brian Pallister is calling on the premier to investigate the conduct of his former immigration and multiculturalism minister and why she lied to a standing committee on her role in an April 2012 email sent by one of her senior bureaucrats. , according to Winnipeg Free Press. In the budget estimates meeting, Melnick was being questioned on the matter by former Morris MLA Mavis Taillieu. Brian Pallister BRUCE OWEN / Photo Store Related Items Links Melnick/Taillieu exchange Pallister, quoting from a transcript of a committee of supply budget estimates meeting May 30, 2012, said then-immigration and multiculturalism minister Christine Melnick denied directing an assistant deputy minister to send an email to immigration service agencies to the legislature for an event that turned out to be a confrontation between the NDP and four federal Conservative MPs over Ottawa's plan to seize control of the delivery of immigrant services. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.