Well, unfortunately, as the media has reported, there are several thousand individuals across the country who are under RCMP investigation for citizenship fraud. It's in the range of 3,000 citizens and 5,000 permanent residents who are under investigation for fraud, related in most cases to residence. Unfortunately, as the media has also reported, in some of these instances there are consultants who have been involved and who have allegedly counselled applicants to falsely represent whether they were indeed meeting the requirements for the purposes of citizenship.
Under immigration legislation, there is a framework for the designation of a body to regulate citizenship consultants...sorry, to designate immigration consultants, to hold them to professional and ethical standards of conduct, and that authority is missing in citizenship legislation. The bill proposes to remedy that gap to provide similar authority to hold citizenship consultants to ethical and professional standards of conduct as well.