My colleague Andrew Mayeda reports that Conservative Jason Kenney, his party's point man in Canada's immigrant communities, accuses the Liberals of playing dirty pool when it comes to ethnic politics: Kenney slams Liberal ethnic outreach Tory accuses Grits of funneling grants to 'community godfathers' Andrew Mayeda , Canwest News Service Published: Thursday, July 31, 2008 LEVIS, Que. - The man charged with spearheading the Harper government's "ethnic-outreach" efforts has accused former Liberal governments of running "Tammany Hall"-style operations that funneled grants to local immigrant "godfathers." "Typically, I think, the Liberals pursued what some people have called an ethnic-brokerage model of outreach, where they would identify leaders of certain groups who somehow magically would become the recipients of substantial grants and subsidies for their community organizations," Jason Kenney, secretary of state for multiculturalism, said when asked how his government's approach differs from that of the Liberals.
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