Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, absolutely.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I agree absolutely--100%.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  You're 100% correct again.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's absolutely without question.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  If I may finish in answer to his point--

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The minister has the power to issue to her staff any instructions she wants that outline the government's operational mandate. Do they have the same force as these potential ministerial instructions that have no judicial oversight will have, other than being charter-complaint? No

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It is. However--

Citizenship and Immigration committee  According to the minister, it's 900,000.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I agree absolutely--100%.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  My position--and I agreed with all of your points--is that the issue from the bar's perspective is the question of why the minister needs these powers. It's not that we take any issue with any of these individual points you've made. At the end of the day, if ministerial instructi

Citizenship and Immigration committee  If the goal of the minister would be, for example, as she tagged to Bill C-17, parameters to prevent certain vulnerable persons from being issued work permits, she can issue an operations memorandum on this point. She can have her staff instruct her people in the field to be very

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The challenge your question poses is that the bar association advocates on behalf of its members—it's a voluntary organization—as well as for the proper administration of justice. Our mandate doesn't include policing lawyers. That's the mandate of the law society of each province

Citizenship and Immigration committee  There aren't any.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  My understanding is that in Quebec, absolutely not. In fact, for applications filed under the Quebec government's guidelines, there is some authority for the idea that you have to be a Quebec lawyer, on top of everything else.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Well, let me make it easier for him. I really don't think it's appropriate for me to answer that question. Our bar has no position on whether the government should stand or fall based on Bill C-50. Our position as far as Bill C-50 is concerned is that it raises some issues of the