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Settlement Services and Jason Kenney

Jason Kenney: Former immigration minister Jason Kenney toured Winnipeg's Immigrant Centre Wednesday afternoon and got a rundown of its settlement services -- another touchy federal-provincial subject, according to Winnipeg Free Press. Melnick denied, then later admitted, to telling her assistant deputy minister in 2012 to invite bureaucrats and immigrant groups to attend a controversial legislative debate of a resolution criticizing the federal government's takeover plan and Jason Kenney, Minister of Employment and Social Development, meets with Theresa Oswald, Manitoba Minister of Jobs and transportation trade students at a Canada Job Grant press conference in Winnipeg, Wednesday. THE Kenney corrects record on settlement services The political scandal involving Manitoba's former immigration minister, Christine Melnick, was sparked by Ottawa's decision to take over funding and administration for newcomer-settlement services from the province. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.