Jason Kenney
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"Jason T. Kenney", Queen's Privy Council for Canada/PC, Canadian House of Commons/MP is Canada's Minister of Employment and Social Development and Minister for Multiculturalism. He has represented the riding of Calgary Southeast in the Canadian House of Commons since 1997.

Initially elected as a candidate of the Reform Party of Canada, Kenney was re-elected as a Canadian Alliance candidate in 2000, and has since been re-elected four times as the candidate of the Conservative Party of Canada.

Following the Conservative victory in the 2006 general election, Kenney was appointed Parliamentary Secretary for the Prime Minister of Canada. On January 4, 2007, he was sworn into the Queen's Privy Council for Canada/Privy Council as the Secretary of State for Multiculturalism and Canadian Identity. Kenney has held the post of Minister for Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism since October 30, 2008. On July 15, 2013 he became Minister of Employment and Social Development and Minister for Multiculturalism.

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We're going to be very deliberate about this. We're not in the game of running a smear campaign against individuals, but we do believe accountability is a central issue.

We've gotten to a level where the price is beginning to impinge on economic growth. People are starting to worry about a slowdown.

It's going to add some volatility to markets for some time to come because of security of supply issues. There are a lot of implications from this slippage [in gas deliveries].

Canadians voted for hope over fear and accountability over corruption. Tonight is the beginning of a moment of reckoning for the Liberal Party.

Drastic measures were needed to anticipate the erosion of their stocks. Latin America is a weight on the stock at every turn.

There's a lot of nervousness in the markets already, but what do you get nervous about now. The fact that tankers aren't being used as much as last year implies that supplies are getting through.

Some assets were impacted for six to nine months from Ivan last year because things like underwater landslides affected pipelines once the storm had passed. Shell is taking the brunt of the storm this time.

If that is what the algorithm shows, I think it needs quite a bit of work.

They did have the flexibility to increase that, so I think some investors will not be impressed.