I think it's important to emphasize two things. Although a profession's sphere of action is a federal jurisdiction, the fact remains that control over all professions in Canada, except that of immigration consultant, is under provincial jurisdiction. If you are a lawyer, even if you argue cases concerning Foreign Affairs, which are under federal jurisdiction, in the Supreme Court, you must nevertheless be a member of your provincial professional association. If it wanted to do so, it would be quite simple for the government to require immigration consultants to be members of their provincial professional associations. At that point, those associations would establish themselves.
Second, there is an oversight mechanism in the provinces, since there are a number of professional associations. They are asked to regulate themselves, but there is also an outside organization that oversees them. In Quebec, for example, the Office des professions du Québec does that. There is no board of that kind at the federal level. What could we do? We could build from scratch an organization that would control a single profession. It seems to me that's not efficient. It would be better to invest immediately in the right solution, which is to transfer that jurisdiction to the provinces.
Do you have any comments? What do Ms. Onuschak and the other speakers think?