NATIONAL ETHNIC PRESS AND MEDIA COUNCIL OF CANADA

       Conseil national de la presse et des medias ethniques du Canada

Canada’s Other Voices

Office of the President

September 13, 2008

                                            P r e s s     r e l e a s e

Dear Friends and Colleagues, Brothers and Sisters in the Ethnic Press and Media:

Today I agreed on your behalf for the participation of no more than forty, (40), publisher or Editors-In-Chief of our members to a Round Table discussion with the R. Honourable Stephen Harper, Prime Minister of Canada and leader of the Conservative party of Canada.

The meeting is going to be organized by the Prime Ministers Office and scheduled for Tuesday afternoon, September the 16^th, in a hotel of the Toronto area.

To this extend I submitted to the PMO the names of the publishers and or Editors-In-Chief of our members in good standing and the final selection is going to be done by them in order to accommodate as many different publications as our diverse communities. Invitations are going to be extended to those selected by the Prime Minister’s Staff and the recipients must rsvp immediately if they will participate and also the nature of their question (only one question per participant), to Prime Minister. Nobody else will be permitted to attend and also is someone forgets to notify the PMO by return email of his intensions to participate he will not be permitted to enter the hall of the meeting for not receiving proper security clearance. As this event is clearly a Round Table discussion with forty participants we have to accept the rules of the security and the PMO.

Please if you receive the invitation respond back immediately and also place the nature of your question to Prime Minister.

More information I will provide during our monthly meeting on Monday September 15^th, at 6:00 pm at he main legislative building, Queen’s Park, in Toronto.

Thank you for your proper attention and cooperation,

Thomas S. Saras