It's terrible when people go to someone and they think they are going to a lawyer. Most of the time when people come to see me, they say they went to this lawyer and he misguided me. I ask the person's name. I look it up and they are an RCIC. They say that all the staff refer to him as a lawyer and he himself refers to himself as a lawyer.
However, the compensation fund is too little, too late, because how do you compensate for a lifetime of earnings a person could have made in Canada if their express entry application and their spousal sponsorship had gone through and they were making Canadian dollars and they are from India where they were only making $3,000 or $4,000 a year? You can't compensate for that.
Sometimes, when people are complicit in it, they are not going to go the distance. The department is never going to be sympathetic to someone where they are somewhat complicit because they went to a consultant who asked them what they did. Maybe there was no other way they could qualify and they suggested something and they went along with it. This is to the client, because you asked me about this. You know the government is never going to say it wasn't their fault, so here's immigration; here is their permanent resident visa. It's not going to happen. The department is never going to agree to that.