Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you. I will do it in French, please. My name is Selin Deravedisyan-Adam. I am here today as a full member of the CSIC, and I am also the president of the Canadian Migration Institute for Quebec. I am here to make a few points that I think are essential. While you all kno

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Just use “Adam”, please.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Oui. C'est parfait.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  There are two. In Quebec, to get training in order to write the exam to become an immigration consultant, you have to take the training in English offered in the various institutions certified by the CSIC or enrol in the well-known online program, e-Academy. That program is also

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We have about 150 in Quebec.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  One hundred fifty: one, five, zero.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We could easily say four, five, six or seven. The figures may be unbelievably high because at the moment, for example, it is very easy to call yourself a consultant. That's why I made a comment about the term “consultant” just now, which is misused, which is used to cover just ab

Citizenship and Immigration committee  When you say institution, you're talking about the CSIC, probably?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Right. For that organization, for the moment, we do not get any subsidies at all, from the government or otherwise. We are totally independent.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, to my knowledge. At the provincial level, in any event, I have never personally had to solicit funding from any government department or anywhere else.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The Canadian Migration Institute is in fact, at the moment, still a for-profit organization, but that kind of information is handled by head office in Toronto.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The difference is that the Institute is not officially a training body. It is there to protect the public, to help consultants, specialists, be they lawyers, notaries, members of the Barreau du Québec or simply certified immigration consultants, get access to various training ses

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  There are a lot of changes in Quebec. Everyone who can work directly with the ministère de l'Immigration et des Communautés culturelles is going to have to make a mandatory declaration when they fill out the forms. There is a parallel with Bill C-35. I didn't come here just to cr

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Those are more political issues. In fact, it is going to be very complementary. Don't forget that Quebec has the unique feature of having its own immigration programs and there are many very worthwhile programs. As a result, a lot of people use Quebec as an access route. So it is