Evidence of meeting #19 for Citizenship and Immigration in the 39th Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was alberta.
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Conservative
Ed Komarnicki Conservative Souris—Moose Mountain, SK
The membership would need to aspire to the professional standards in order to be registered.
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Conservative
Ed Komarnicki Conservative Souris—Moose Mountain, SK
You would probably have to have a discipline section to it, to discipline those who acted inappropriately. Would you agree?
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Immigration Consultant, As an Individual
I think those are the two core aspects of the mandate, yes.
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Conservative
Ed Komarnicki Conservative Souris—Moose Mountain, SK
The third, I would say, based on the law society and how it functions, is an ethics section to deal with ethical issues. Would you agree with that?
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Conservative
Ed Komarnicki Conservative Souris—Moose Mountain, SK
Does this CSIC as it is now, imperfect or less than perfect, cover those three mandates?
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Immigration Consultant, As an Individual
Yes. There's nothing wrong with the mandate.
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Conservative
Ed Komarnicki Conservative Souris—Moose Mountain, SK
Okay. I'm just going to go through that to see the bottom of it.
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Conservative
Ed Komarnicki Conservative Souris—Moose Mountain, SK
Have there been some disciplinary hearings, that you know of?
I understand there have been three.
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Conservative
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Immigration Consultant, As an Individual
I assume so. I do recall getting a notice about one woman. I remember one. That's all I remember.
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Conservative
Ed Komarnicki Conservative Souris—Moose Mountain, SK
Have there been requirements for professional standards, basic minimum requirements that consultants need to meet?
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Conservative
Ed Komarnicki Conservative Souris—Moose Mountain, SK
Okay.
What's the consequence, in the organization as it now is? How do you punish members who need to be punished or disciplined? What's the disciplinary range?
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Immigration Consultant, As an Individual
A person can be spoken to, right up to having their membership revoked.
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Conservative
Ed Komarnicki Conservative Souris—Moose Mountain, SK
So the most serious would be a revocation of membership.
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Conservative
Ed Komarnicki Conservative Souris—Moose Mountain, SK
Are there any provisions in the bylaws for actual fines or disciplinary action other than just losing one's membership?
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Immigration Consultant, As an Individual
It's not on the top of my head, but I remember reading the discipline system at length about a year ago. Yes, there was a gradation of punishment.
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Conservative
Ed Komarnicki Conservative Souris—Moose Mountain, SK
The fundamentals are there to protect the public and to preserve a certain measure of integrity in the consultant arena, if you want to call it that. Would you agree that there is that fundamental aspect to it?
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Immigration Consultant, As an Individual
Yes, the mechanisms are there, I think.
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Conservative
Ed Komarnicki Conservative Souris—Moose Mountain, SK
You'd just like to see the governance of it changed. Is that correct?