Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, and committee members, for allowing me to appear before you today. I am not only a private citizen, but also a director of ICCRC, elected to protect the public. I am doing my elected duty. I am also an immigration consultant. I grew up in Calgary and have a

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, sir.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  All right. If I could just say that this—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'll add one more thing and say that this is going to lead directly into the disciplinary process, but I am prepared to do whatever the chair decides. That is fine with me. I can come back later at another time if that's more appropriate.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That is where I'm going with my remarks on discipline and governance. Shall I proceed?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you. The more I looked, the more I found. I peeled back the layers of the onion, and there were troubling issues step by step. To date there are four sets of financial statements, all for 2016, all certified and audited by BDO and they still don't have it right. The la

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Removing the bad actors is the first step. This is just a business problem, and we can take care of our problems internally. In terms of the disciplinary process, they've been going after lots of people. In my case, they're gearing up to go after me as a whistle-blower for up to

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Actually, I don't. Even though I was elected in a landslide, it wouldn't surprise that I haven't been appointed to any committee, either as chair or vice-chair. I've been kind of shut out, and just told to stand in the corner. I don't have a way to answer that for you.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  There are ways to reach out to other governments and use their resources. For example, in my case I spent a lot of years in the Philippines. There, the second-largest contributor to GDP is foreign workers. They send remittance back to the Philippines, so there's a real propensity

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I need to think more about that.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  My answer to you is that after we have sorted out our problems internally and have focused on the correct problems, which are the difficult cases in immigration, getting our educational standard increased dramatically, and the other issues—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  What I'm trying to say—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The educational standard for a consultant is that they need to know IRPA inside out and need to be up to date. They need to be ethical.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Absolutely.