Citizenship and Immigration committee  The matter came to the attention of our Federal Court just last month. The direction and trend in policy and at the law society level, probably across the country, is that a member of the law society will take full responsibility for the conduct of employees of the office, be the

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you. Today, the context is derived from pro bono work with Canadian print and electronic investigative journalists from P.E.I., Saskatchewan, British Columbia and Ontario into immigration issues related to our topic. Here is the key point. Canada has a little-known collec

Citizenship and Immigration committee  You know, I recall the same issue raised when it came [Technical difficulty--Editor] and foreign students in Canada. I remember saying for five years, almost 10 years, that the solution is that every school needs a designated institution number. If you're not on that list of desi

Citizenship and Immigration committee  With due respect, I have a difficult time with that one, on many levels. I also have a concern that if the federal level of government were to regulate the immigration consultants, there would be a temptation for overlap between the immigration authorities, CBSA, RCMP, and that r

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes. I just rebound with the voluntary disclosure program. That really would fix a lot of cases that you've described.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think we can also drill down, as our common province, British Columbia, does in the case of new drivers. We have a graduated authority. You have an N on your car for a new driver and an L on your car for a learner, until you graduate to being full-fledged driver. The same possi

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes. It's creative. It is possible to come up with resource gathering policies, but they may be politically difficult. For example, we can adopt a practice in immigration of some other countries, western democratic countries, where we say this consultant, this lawyer, is entitled

Citizenship and Immigration committee  There are two quick answers to that. First, it's nice to have keys to the car; it's nice to have a car. Where's the gas? Who's going to fuel this enforcement action to a reasonable degree? Secondly, the car stops at the ocean, so for much of the nefarious activity, you end up wit

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I strongly agree, sir. There should be a little light that goes on. In the example of the “Sunny” Wang case, I'm not sure why it took three years to bring the consultant to justice, but somewhere in the computer system there's a device that should signal that a particular licence

Citizenship and Immigration committee  There is provincially. When it comes to consultants, I don't think the regulatory authority has access to the data. IRCC has access. They should begin to share and liaise on the ethical conduct side.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  There's goodwill, but I haven't seen the coffins line up.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It's one of these situations where reasonable people can reasonably disagree. I take a different path from the Canadian Bar Association's official position this time around, and there's no surprise there. I have been supporting the consultant issue in pre-embryonic times, and ove

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think the Australian model is good. The information resources parallel the Canadian information resources publicly available. That's good too, but that's not the issue. Look at the Canadian example of work permits, labour market impact assessments for the operator-owners of bu

Citizenship and Immigration committee  My preferred solution is to borrow budget, considering that no new resources may be available. Borrow budget from the RCMP and CBSA, and allocate it to IRCC. That's where the heavy lifting occurs. It can be done proactively on screening intake, and it can certainly be done within