Sure. Mr. Chairman, I'll start, and my colleagues can chime in to offer some additional detail.
In order to address the concerns of public confidence in the body currently governing immigration consultants, I think as the report from this committee had pointed out, the government wanted to move quickly. It was determined that the establishment of a governing body through stand-alone legislation would have been a lengthy, and I might also add a costly, process.
So the approach we've arrived at in Bill C-35 is really what we feel is the most practical and efficient, in terms of cost and time, to the regulation of immigration consultants. And I'd just point out as well—and then I'll ask Ms. Harder and Ms. MacNeil to comment—that governing bodies, whether it's stand-alone legislation or not, do have a responsibility for taking disciplinary action against their members, including the revocation of membership, which we see as a significant tool.
Like other governing bodies, the governing body for immigration consultants can provide for measures concerning the discipline of its members, similar to the process used by law societies in looking into complaints concerning their own members.
Madame.