Citizenship and Immigration committee  You're looking at me, so my light goes on.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We thought something needed to be done right away. Something needed to be done about the ghost consultants to shut that gaping hole and something needed to be done to clean up the situation in CSIC. There are many competent consultants out there. There are some who are well expe

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Now you have a situation--which is a good one, I think--where the minister can request information and it has to be provided. I think that is a good thing. That's a complaint of members of CSIC now: they don't know what's going on. There isn't any built-in accountability. So th

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The proposal of this committee was in fact to set up a stand-alone statute for the body...that it might be better way to govern it, and it may indeed. The minister's response to that, as I understand from reading the committee notes, is that for cost and time reasons, he wanted t

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I say it in a very complimentary way. I'm a big fan of the minister. He gets a lot of things done. He moves things fast and--

Citizenship and Immigration committee  He's wearing out both us and his own people--

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Well, on that, those can be done in the regulations. You just need to make sure that the minister has the power to make those regulations.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We're saying that in proposed subsection 91(5) or around there you should make sure that the minister has the power to make regulations that would govern the minister's exercise of the revocation function.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Well, yes, I confess that I don't think it's worded as beautifully as Gary Dubinsky and the Department of Justice would do it, but we've given them an idea, and they can stay up really late tonight coming up with a solution. How's that?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, there's a delineation there. As for telling them that these are the required documents that the visa office says are required for this application, I don't think that's really giving advice if it's totally transparent. The problems we've had are where they're asking for docu

Citizenship and Immigration committee  One of the big complaints that this committee heard and commented on in its previous reports in 2008 and 2009 was the fact that the disciplinary system did not get up and running. Now there is another problem in that they lack the powers to effectively discipline; they just weren

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm afraid we haven't gone so far as to give specific wording. We do suggest that the public interest has to be the main consideration here, but you would also have other factors that would be relevant to that. You need only look at the litany of complaints about the current or

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes. The Canadian Bar Association offers very comprehensive legal training in areas of specialty. I think ours is unsurpassed in what we offer in terms of annual national courses, but also in local provincial courses. As well, some provinces are like the province of Ontario, wh

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Then you might get yourself into a constitutional fight with the provinces.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  If I may, I'll add a couple of points. I've heard the argument before: lawyers only get one course or whatever. The idea is that what happens in law is that you get trained to think like a lawyer. You get trained in how to apply knowledge of the law—that is, statute and the com