In Ontario, there is a law that now regulates paralegals, and they are regulating them. Paralegals have to be members of the Law Society of Upper Canada. This is going to create an issue with the Canadian Society of Immigration Consultants, because if you're recognized as a paralegal, why are you not recognized under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act to do work and represent people before the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Immigration, or whatever?
So you are creating a dual jurisdiction, because the federal government created CSIC through the IRPA without putting any substantial regulations or definitions about what CSIC was going to do. Now the different local law societies are going to start regulating the industry of paralegals and consultants, and you are going to have a double jurisdiction.
Are we equipped in Ontario or at any provincial level to deal with the situation of paralegals and consultants through the different law societies? The answer is yes, and that's one of the ways that you can take a look. The other way is to give a statute, a law, to CSIC and make CSIC able to go after the people who are basically destroying the lives of immigrants and refugees.
The other thing you can do is treat the whole situation of unscrupulous consultants as a crime in the legislation, as a criminal situation. Then the police and the authorities can go and make it a priority to stop this.