Citizenship and Immigration committee  Absolutely, we've had AGMs. The most recent situation—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The issues I want to speak to today are the agents. I'd be more than happy to entertain issues about immigration consultants and our governance model in our appearance in Toronto. I don't want to take away from the fellow panellists who have legitimate concerns.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  What we're observing is the laws are playing catch-up with what's happening in the marketplace. Certainly, from the foreign worker movement and the abuses we're seeing--and they're being reported to the society--many of the provincial governments are dealing with outdated legisla

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We referred to it as complaints from our members and basically non-jurisdictional complaints that we've received from the community. Pick up any ethnic newspaper in Canada and you will see advertisements of people who are advertising their services for employment services right

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Most provinces have provincial legislation on employment agents. What is missing is a federal counterpart. There's nothing at the federal level to deal with this.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Well, a self-regulating body of human resource agents.... I'm not sure what the government will decide on that, but there's definitely a need to regulate in this area.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm sorry, are you talking about CSIC?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It would be inappropriate for us, as the regulator, to comment on a question of policy.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I said maybe.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We have it validated on the basis of the members electing a board of directors, Mr. St-Cyr. If I may finish, Mr. Chair, that position is endorsed and approved by the board of directors, who are elected. One-third of them are appointed as public interest directors in the public

Citizenship and Immigration committee  First of all, thank you very much for your question, Mr. St.-Cyr. Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. To respond to your question, I think it's important that I explain the mandate of the society to the member. First of all, the mandate of the Canadian Society of Immigration

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Mr. Chair, I don't understand the question. We're a national regulator and we're here to speak on the issue of temporary foreign workers. We will be addressing the issue of immigration consultants in Toronto.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'd like to thank you and the committee for allowing us to appear before you today. My name is John Ryan. I am the chair and also the acting CEO of the Canadian Society of Immigration Consultants, which is the national regulator of immigration consultants t