Comité Atlantique sur l’immigration francophone (CAIF)

Three conference attendees laughing together in front of a New Brunswick Multicultural Council banner.

The Department of Citizenship and Immigration spent almost $750,000 monitoring ethnic media over the past three years, including assessments of election campaign events and “perceptions” of minister Jason Kenney. […] “A series of interviews and appearances by minister Kenney and his representatives were strong contributors to the upswing in the ministerial image,” says a report from May 5, 2010, under a pie graph titled “Minister Overall Perception.”

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/1287450–immigration-ministry-paid-for-media-monitoring-of-minister-jason-kenney-s-image