Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes. I can almost repeat what Fanny said, which is that, prior to our legislation, I cannot remember us ever having a meeting with anybody from CIC or Service Canada. The manager of my enforcement unit has weekly meetings with Service Canada, CBSA, and CIC, and we share concern

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I've always had an enforcement branch. This whole legislation is integrated into my employment standards branch. Manitoba has 1.2 million people. We have 600,000 workers and about 34,000 businesses. In my employment standards branch, I have about 35 investigators. With this legi

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, but I'll go back to my statement that in employment standards our whole mandate is to protect vulnerable workers. This is clearly a vulnerable segment of our workforce, so if I hadn't received the resources, maybe I wouldn't have been able to do as good a job as we've done,

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm governed by statute. Yes, I am.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Oh, no, in terms of that, no; I'm not a self-governing body.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Absolutely.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I need to think about that question. Our legislation does not regulate immigration consultants. It regulates recruiters. It just so happens that most recruiters are immigration consultants. On regulating the recruitment piece of it, prior to our legislation we didn't even know

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm not sure if your question was about our legislation or about the bill.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  My experience is that there's not any one agency that's able to resolve this issue. We work very closely with Canada Border Security, inland security, the RCMP, our local police, Service Canada, CIC, and CSIC. I think any agency that has more authority, more enforcement powers, i

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It really resulted from foreign workers showing up on our doorsteps. We heard stories about how they paid some unbelievable amount of money for a job, or how they came here for a job but there was no job, and there might not even have been a business by that name. We heard storie

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I have no comment on that.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I report to a deputy minister who ultimately reports to a minister. Now, having said that, I'm a regulatory body, and I don't share with my minister or my deputy any of my investigations, where I'm going, and what my conclusions are. I don't ask for permission to regulate my act.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I have a comment. Again, what our legislation does is that makes either the employer or our licensed recruiter completely responsible for any fees that a worker may be charged. So if one of those parties is using somebody offshore and we find out about it, we recover those moneys

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I don't have an opinion.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's my understanding of how it works.