Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you very much. Good afternoon, everyone. I'm a specialist certified by the Law Society of Upper Canada here in Ontario. I'm a specialist in immigration, citizenship, and refugee law. I was previously in-house counsel to the federal tribunal, the Immigration and Refugee Board, which is the largest tribunal in Canada and has the exclusive jurisdiction to adjudicate refugee immigration appeals, detention reviews, and admissibility hearings.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Good. I can send it electronically if you want.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm sorry I didn't bring a translation.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I only got notice of this on Thursday, so I did what I could to get prepared for the time we have together this afternoon. Obvioiusly it's clear to all of us that we need robust laws, we need.... Unfortunately, we've come to a point in our history in this country where we need to criminalize the provision of immigration advice by those who are unauthorized to do so.