—albeit with more government control and more penalties does nothing more than protect them so they continue to practise law, now with more government bureaucracy paid for by taxpayers. What's worse, telling people that these consultants who are registered with the college are overseen by the government sends a wrong message. It may lead to confusion that people are hiring government agents or that they will receive more favourable treatment than if they hired lawyers whose regulatory bodies are not intermingled with the government. People are disappointed to learn that consultants who run law offices and call themselves lawyers are anything but. This will get worse with the Queen's and Sherbrooke programs because people will say they graduated from law school.
Sadly, stories of fraud will continue. The next review will be maybe the triannual review. What we'll be hearing is, “Oh, it's just a young body. Just give them a chance”.