Ottawa

Political or ministerial?

More concerns are raised about what Jason Kenney does with his time.

… opposition parties are far from satisfied and maintain the letter has laid bare a more serious conflict of interest: Kenney’s dual role as immigration minister and the Tories chief political organizer in multicultural communities. “It seems to me that is the real problem here,” said deputy Liberal leader Ralph Goodale. “It’s a brutal conflict of interest that leads to the exploitation of the very people that he is charged as a minister to represent.”

For whatever it is worth, the Liberals point out that they’ve differentiated between multiculturalism and ethnic outreach (Rob Oliphant is assigned that job) and immigration (Justin Trudeau is the critic). Mr. Trudeau has penned a letter to the commissioner of elections to request an investigation of Mr. Kenney’s misdirected fundraising letter.

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