I need to think about that question. Our legislation does not regulate immigration consultants. It regulates recruiters. It just so happens that most recruiters are immigration consultants.
On regulating the recruitment piece of it, prior to our legislation we didn't even know which employers were recruiting employees. From an employment standards perspective, I spent a lot of my time trying to protect vulnerable workers. A temporary foreign worker can only work for a single employer—absolutely a vulnerable worker—but prior to our legislation we didn't know where those workers were. We didn't have a clue.
Because of our legislation, we now know where those workers are. We know which employers are bringing in those workers. So I can send out my investigators into those workplaces, interview those workers, and ensure that the terms and conditions of the labour market opinion are being abided by.
So if we're dealing with an unscrupulous recruiter who does what we call the bait and switch--if in the LMO document they promise to pay $20 per hour and once the worker shows up they say, well, we've changed our minds, or they say that the worker doesn't have the skill set so they're going to pay $9 per hour--our legislation allows us to enforce all the terms and conditions of the LMO. The plane ticket home, the benefits...it doesn't matter what it is, we can enforce those.
So we can deal effectively with the employer and, because of our licensing scheme, we now can control the recruitment side of it too. It's really because we're aware of it before it occurs. They have to come to us before they even make application for the LMO document.