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Bureaucrats told to provide Rob Nicholson 3 terrorism-related statements a week

Move to set quota on a topic called 'unusual' by one former deputy minister

 

Foreign Affairs bureaucrats were told this spring to produce three terrorism-related statements for minister Rob Nicholson to make to the media each week, ahead of a fall election in which security and Canada's response to terrorism are expected to be key issues.

The email, dated April 24 and obtained by CBC News Network's Power & Politics, suggests the regular ministerial statements should be crafted from an event reported by the news media, such as developments in the fight against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.

Canada is part of a U.S.-led coalition fighting ISIS in Iraq and Syria, a mission opposed by the NDP and Liberals.

The email relays a request from Nicholson's communications team and is addressed to all bureaucrats working in security-related divisions. It tasks them with providing the minister's communications team with "...three MINA (ministerial) statements to the media regarding security in the context of terrorism each week."

READ MORE: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/bureaucrats-told-to-provide-rob-nicholson-3-terrorism-related-statements-a-week-1.3163333