Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, I don't think all consultants are uneducated, but there are—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  First, I have suggested that we need to discover exactly whether those consultants are regulated, or not regulated, because a lot of people still provide immigration services in Canada. It is illegal to provide immigration consulting services in Canada without a licence, but they

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Sorry?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  They should.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  They do, and they are actually educated before they get their licence, but the problem is that we actually.... I'm an author of online educational material. I know a lot of other educational providers. I've had a lot of students come to me to complain that the education they are

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It depends. A lot of immigration has now shifted to economic immigration. So some people in the immigration consulting industry have a finance background with a bachelor's degree. They do a one or two-year immigration program and they are knowledgeable.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Okay. I recommend a revision of IRPA's misrepresentation provision, adding “knowingly retain services involving misrepresentation advocating abuse of the Canadian legal system”, so that a client can be refused for that reason. In terms of regulatory recommendations, I also reco

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thanks to the committee for inviting me. My name is Ni Fang. I've been practising immigration consulting since 2001. I'm one of the first group of consultants that were regulated and am now the chair of the Canadian Migration Institute, which provides

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair.