Citizenship and Immigration committee  Are you referring to a separate agency application, not the public policy with respect to the in-Canada class?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The extension of a temporary status is the responsibility of the applicant, so they would extend the status, maintain their status in Canada, until their decision was completed.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No. It's usual practice to extend temporary status for those individuals in that circumstance.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  To speak to your first question about how we detect fraudulent relationships, interviews take place with applicants if there are questions concerning the evidence. The first stage would be to examine the evidence that the applicant has put forward with respect to the legitimacy o

Citizenship and Immigration committee  There are provisions under the regulations for investigation in those circumstances. Do you want to speak to any of those?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  In addition to the financial assistance that may be made available--

Citizenship and Immigration committee  --for the start-up, the way the approach has been structured is that the organization, whether that's CSIC or any other body, should be demonstrating to us how they plan to move forward and how they plan to remain a viable organization. You have also pointed out that the member

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'll just start by saying that we completely recognize that consumer protection and the regulation of professions are provincial jurisdictions. What is under federal jurisdiction is the protection of the integrity of the immigration program as a whole. The recognition and the des

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The oversight capacity of this approach as well is important, because this committee recommended some government involvement in the organization at this stage, so that oversight capacity does speak to that somewhat. The minister has that designation authority and has the authorit

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, I think the call for proposals leaves it open to the organization to demonstrate what its needs will be. That's what will be examined—what the organization itself identifies as its needs.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  There have not been any to date, but the deadline is December 29.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I don't believe there have been any. Just to address your first point, I think it's a good opportunity to clarify the two processes. We went forward with a public selection process under existing authorities. Under the current regulations there's recognition of the Canadian Soc

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Just to reiterate and to be clear, there are two main parts of the broad strategy on regulating immigration representatives. Certainly Bill C-35 is the key element of that and is the subject of discussion here today. Just to reiterate, the public selection process is a complement

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'll speak to that, as well. The objective is really to identify the governing body that would act as the regulator of immigration consultants. That body would effectively regulate in the public interest, thereby enhancing public confidence in the immigration system as a whole a

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, I can certainly speak to the examples the department has seen of some of the elements of fraud or misconduct that have come forward. Certainly the activities really cover a range, anything from overcharging clients to actually failing to provide the immigration services tha