Evidence of meeting #33 for Citizenship and Immigration in the 40th Parliament, 3rd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was consultants.
A recording is available from Parliament.
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Conservative
Rick Dykstra Conservative St. Catharines, ON
All right. I won't make a big deal out of this. You guys think you're being funny, but I don't know.
Why don't we do this? Let's have a recorded vote, and that's all I'll ask for. We'll live with whatever the results of it are.
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NDP
Olivia Chow NDP Trinity—Spadina, ON
Yes.
It does actually tar consultants. It's immigration consultants we're talking about. “Cracking Down on Crooked Consultants”...I can see it as a title on a press release.
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NDP
Olivia Chow NDP Trinity—Spadina, ON
Yes, I know it's quite nicely done.
But I've heard enough comments out in the field that people are insulted, saying, “We're not crooks. We're immigration consultants. We've been well trained.” So I think it's better that we don't have that kind of title. People can get offended.
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Liberal
Rob Oliphant Liberal Don Valley West, ON
I would just add that I think members of professions across the country who are regulated by provincial bodies, such as lawyers and physicians and nurses, have no acts that are entitled the law to regulate crooked lawyers or crooked nurses or crooked physicians or crooked pharmacists. So I think we should extend—
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Liberal
Rob Oliphant Liberal Don Valley West, ON
—that same courtesy to immigration consultants who are trying their best.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative David Tilson
Does anyone else have anything to say?
We have a request for a recorded vote, Ms. Clerk.
(Clause 1 negatived: nays 6; yeas 5)
Shall the title carry?
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Some hon. members
Agreed.
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Some hon. members
Agreed.
On division.
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Some hon. members
Agreed.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative David Tilson
I understand we have to have a reprint of the bill. Shall the committee order a reprint of the bill?
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Some hon. members
Agreed.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative David Tilson
That appears to end Bill C-35.
It's now a quarter after. I'm going to suggest that the subcommittee meet on Wednesday at 3:30 and that this committee not meet again formally until a week from today.
The committee is adjourned.