When CSIC started licensing consultants, those consultants who couldn't get licensed became foreign recruiters. They migrated from a regulated area to an unregulated area. Now some of the provincial governments are trying to deal with that.
I'm not here to address everything, but I'd like to tell you a brief story that perhaps makes the point. Maybe it's a typical story.
We were retained by a client who came to Canada on a work permit. He was promised a job for a certain period of time, was promised a certain salary, was promised that his family could join him. Of course, none of that happened.
What made it worse is that when the consultant tried to take him to the border to correct the problem that he had created, the immigration authorities detained him and threatened to deport him from Canada. It is only with the cooperation of CBSA, CIC, Service Canada, and the provincial nominee program that the individual is now a permanent resident and was able to have his family join him.
The tragedy of this particular case is that while this was going on, his wife, in their home country, contracted cancer and was literally dying. He could not leave the country. Finally, we were able to get, with the cooperation of the immigration authorities, the necessary authorization for him to go back and at least spend a month with his wife and then bring his children to Canada. This was a real, visceral injustice.
What could we do against this rogue agent? The only thing we could do was sue him in court for the fees he charged. We were successful, but now he has appealed that.
So this self-help remedy is very arbitrary, because it just doesn't work. How do you correct that?
These people are known. It's not as though they're hiding; they're known. Immigration authorities know who they are, provincial regulators know who they are, Service Canada knows who they are. It's a question of putting some....