Citizenship and Immigration committee  It was in 2005, I think, that we got a financial statement. However, we only got the numbers, not what they meant.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No. We asked for an explanation and we did not get that.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I might be. It's just, you know...it's just injustice.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think I've spent about $25,000 since 2003 to be a certified immigration consultant, if I add up all my annual fees, my exams--I had to do three exams to become a full member--and what we pay for seminars and things like that. Now they are forcing me to buy an $800 DVD of an eve

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, definitely. I have to buy what they call CPD points. I have to spend lots of money to buy these points. I speak in public quite a lot--sometimes for government, sometimes for the Rotary, sometimes for some commercial group. I do not get points for that. I see that as educat

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Every two years you need 40 points. I went to the first CMI seminar because they gave a lot of points. They needed money, so they gave 20 points for the CMI seminar. A lot of people decided to go because it gave you 20 points. If I buy the DVD, I will get 15 points, and then I ne

Citizenship and Immigration committee  In fact, we've been screaming for AGMs. We've been asking for AGMs. The board is not really giving us AGMs. We have to ask. Last year the board decided that our AGM would be an online AGM. However, we have no input. We could watch it online, and John Ryan was hosting it, and ther

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No. They approve their own expenses. We as members, even if we ask for a financial report, don't get it. We don't know what's in the financial reports.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Not here in New Brunswick at this point. I know that, for example, in Manitoba they're trying to do something about ghost consultants, as a province. Here in New Brunswick, in the past year, yes, we've seen that e-mails went out to people who were ghost consultants. They're not a

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It is in the bylaws, yes. So we did get a petition together. We sent it in because we needed the special meeting to create a financial committee and things like that.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Our biggest problem is that we don't know who the members are, because CSIC—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  CSIC does not want to provide us with a list of members, e-mail addresses, and things like that. CAPIC, the Canadian Association of Professional Immigration Consultants, does have a website, and on this website we can see our fellow members. That's how we try to find them.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Do you want my personal opinion?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  If I ran an organization like that, I would do whatever I could to keep these people away from each other. All of the immigration consultants could gang up on the board. I mean, this organization has been run awfully. It's been horrible. We have had no input whatsoever. We pay a