Up until recently, CSIC has been investing in CMI. We have provided, without any additional cost to any of our fellows, services that include access to some of the most useful or powerful tools immigration consultants and practitioners can use today, including LexisNexis, Quicklaw, and QuickImmigrant. We have provided our fellows with access to a service called Lexbase, presented by a lawyer in B.C., Richard Kurland, who provides monthly publications and updates on trends in overseas and in-land visa posts.
In fact, when I appeared before the committee previously regarding those levels, I had used some of the information from Lexbase, and you and I had an interesting exchange on the final disposition and FD targets. In addition to that, we provide all of our CSIC member fellows a copy of the annotated Immigration and Refugee Protection Act.
All of this requires considerable investment, which CSIC has made in CMI in getting it to where it is now.
As of this year, we are breaking away from CSIC. We are becoming self-sufficient and CSIC will no longer be investing anything in CMI. We are currently undergoing a renewal cycle whereby we will be charging our fellows fees come November 1.