I think the way to approach this would be to ensure that in order to be a processing consultant you would need to meet certain minimal requirements in your studies. If you want, in addition to that, to be a consultant who appears before a tribunal, you would have to meet other standards. You would have to take courses in evidence. You would have to take a course in the charter. You would have to take a course in the legal ethics of appearing before tribunals. When I looked at the Ashton College curriculum, many of these things weren't there.
I would agree that a consultant who just graduates is not qualified. I think there would have to be a practicum. If a consultant wants to practise before the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, he should declare that. Then he should be required to have a practicum with either a lawyer or another consultant licensed to appear before the board, so as to ensure that when he goes before the board he's familiar with the process and the proceedings.