Citizenship and Immigration Committee on Nov. 22nd, 2010

[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.

[The Chair, Conservative, David Tilson]

Did you want to say something, Ms. Chow?

[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.

[The Chair, Conservative, David Tilson]

I think it's called an alliteration.

[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.

[The Chair, Conservative, David Tilson]

Mr. Oliphant.

[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—

[Olivia Chow, NDP, Trinity—Spadina, ON]

Crooked politicians.

[Rob Oliphant, Liberal, Don Valley West, ON]

—that same courtesy to immigration consultants who are trying their best.

[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?

[Olivia Chow, NDP, Trinity—Spadina, ON]

It's the long title.

[The Chair, Conservative, David Tilson]

Yes, it is.

[Some hon. members]

Agreed.

[The Chair, Conservative, David Tilson]

Shall the bill as amended carry?

[Some hon. members]

Agreed.

On division.

[The Chair, Conservative, David Tilson]

Shall I report the bill to the House?

[Some hon. members]

Agreed.

[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?

[Some hon. members]

Agreed.

[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.