Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, I'm not.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Right. For the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, it is unique in its very technical nature. For someone who studies law, and my daughter is a law student so I know exactly whereof I speak, there is no program specifically for immigration. There are only options, things lik

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I want to say first that I have fought to get where I am today and I did it at great sacrifice. I not only had to become a member in good standing of the CSIC by taking extremely difficult exams, but I also had to make financial and other kinds of sacrifices to keep up my knowled

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm going to be more direct. I may be speaking for the CSIC today, but if it were another organization, I would be defending those interests just as zealously. The circumstances mean that we're talking about the CSIC here. My goal is to explain, to the minister or to someone else

Citizenship and Immigration committee  But those people don't belong to that structure. This is what I really want to stress. They have to be either banned altogether or integrated officially, but dismantling the structure serves no purpose. It's like having a bad hand of cards, and trying to shuffle the cards and sta

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It will soon be a fabulous organization.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes. Very, very big campaigns have been done by CIC, Citizenship and Immigration Canada. Those campaigns have been very promising. In my own private practice, I have noticed that for several months now, I have been getting calls from people who find us—not me personally, but the

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

Citizenship and Immigration committee  You're talking about Quebec, or the federal government?

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.