Having been a member of the minister's advisory committee on the regulation of consultants--one of the 15 members, including the treasurer of the law society--that recommended initially this model to the minister, I can tell you, Mr. Dykstra, that I'm very happy the government has listened to us, finally, as over the last six years we've been asking for a specific penalty with respect to immigration consulting.
We at the regulator have been fighting an uphill battle because people have not had to be a member of CSIC. So we've had an involuntary system where you've had good consultants, who have decided that they're going to go through competency testing and are going to prove that they're good consultants, honest consultants, and were willing to pay the freight, while their competitors just around the corner were allowed to trade, advertise, and continue to do so with the blessings, in many cases, of the CIC and the department.
We're very happy with that aspect of the bill, so I want to congratulate the government on that.
Secondly, the other frustration we had was with the exchange of information. We want to congratulate the government as well on the fact that you finally got around the Privacy Act where you can actually share information with the regulator.