I'm happy to try to answer that.
The bill itself doesn't address that issue, and there has been some concern. Elsewhere in the legislation it says you have a right to have a lawyer before the Immigration and Refugee Board for the actual hearings. In my view, it would be a useful addition to this bill to assert a right to counsel at these interviews.
Basically clause 8 says that if there is a counsel, it can be limited to perhaps being lawyers and members of the Canadian Society of Immigration Consultants, which is the way it's limited now before the Immigration and Refugee Board, but it's silent on the right to counsel, and in my view it should not be.