I have a few questions. Welcome to our committee, despite all the uproar you witnessed.
It's disappointing to see the disparity among the organizations that deal with people who want to immigrate to Canada. We of the Bloc Québécois are aware of the problem, and we believe that it's important to take in people from elsewhere, to be a host society. So we very much depend on the consultants who help these people. We see that the Canadian Society of Immigration Consultants, which appeared earlier, was formed and made official by the government in 2002. An advisory committee had examined the entire question and recommended first that an independent self-regulating organization be formed. That's what was subsequently done.
I wonder whether you were consulted at that time. Did the advisory committee meet with you to hear your recommendations and opinion on the subject?