Citizenship and Immigration committee  If there are resources to do that, I'm sure it's a possibility, but I have difficulty in seeing how they could go to 50 countries around and get agreements with all those countries. I think it would be hard.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, I agree.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm not in a position to answer that. The CSIC regulator may be able to give more information to the second part of your question about how serious this is. The biggest concern I have experienced is recruiters practising immigration law abroad and inside Canada. They also use t

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I fully agree. I'm not sure if I understand the question correctly, but I fully agree that immigration law advice starts right at the beginning, when forms are completed, and even when assessments are done. The practising of immigration law should not start when an inquiry is mad

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, for sure, I fully agree.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  My intention was not to include the regulation of recruiters in Bill C-35. My intention was just to clearly identify what is the practice of immigration law or immigration law advice and to expand proposed section 91. I believe that recruitment is a function that should be dealt

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, I fully agree. If Bill C-35 could go ahead, it would make the immigration manual's paragraph 5.4 in chapter IP 9 ultra vires. This needs to be changed. This is the root cause of the problem. The existing law is not detailed enough. According to the status quo, anybody can as

Citizenship and Immigration committee  There are many sides to this. Defining immigration law advice would be a good start. There has been a lot of discussion in the media and elsewhere about ghost agents, but the term “immigration law advice” has never been really defined in detail. That's really important so that

Citizenship and Immigration committee  My understanding is that a lawyer can practice criminal law for 40 years and then, in year 41, decide to practise immigration law. That's my understanding.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you for the question. I was using both of those examples from Lexbase to show that, across the world, recruiters are practising immigration law. These are the only facts that I could find quickly to demonstrate that recruiters are practising immigration law abroad. My su

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I didn't give it much thought. I just believe that provincial legislation, whatever it might be, must be adhered to. British Columbia has regulations about registration of recruiters. Alberta has rules about that as well, and Manitoba and Ontario have with regard to live-in careg

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Mr. Rafferty, thank you for the question. I don't have any particular comment on the new regulator. I didn't give it much thought. My objective today was only to address the two issues, which I have.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's correct, yes.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No.