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Citizenship and Immigration committee I believe this needs to be taken back to first principles. The government needs to ask whether or not there's a continuing need in 2017 and the next decade for consultants to be regulated in the way they currently are. I have not seen a lot of positive results from the current r
May 1st, 2017Committee meeting
David Nurse
Citizenship and Immigration committee My simple answer to that is no, because I think there's just so much variation among the individual cases that you could not fix a fair standard fee, even for a study permit or a work permit, because of the circumstances of the applicants. If they have past criminal convictions o
May 1st, 2017Committee meeting
David Nurse
Citizenship and Immigration committee No, I do not believe that would be prudent at this time.
May 1st, 2017Committee meeting
David Nurse
Citizenship and Immigration committee My answer has a couple of parts. First, I would say that in my understanding, the unpaid work that, say, a church organization or another community group would do is not impacted by the regime now. People are allowed to get help from a family member, a friend, or a community gro
May 1st, 2017Committee meeting
David Nurse
Citizenship and Immigration committee First of all, I'm not sure that I necessarily believe that price issue has been tested in 2017. I look at the number of lawyers practising immigration law in Nova Scotia, for example, now versus 15 years ago. You might have had one guy who was sort of an oddity 15 years ago. Now,
May 1st, 2017Committee meeting
David Nurse
Citizenship and Immigration committee Just to finalize that, lawyers are doing more than they ever did to provide access to justice. Immigration fees are often offered on a flat-fee basis. There's an obligation to consider the means of the applicant, and also to look at pro bono work. I don't know if the federal gove
May 1st, 2017Committee meeting
David Nurse
Citizenship and Immigration committee Thank you for the question. You're correct that the law societies generally do have the ability to take immediate action. I guess what I see as one of the distinctions between the law societies and ICCRC is that they are generally closer to the ground. Because they are provincia
May 1st, 2017Committee meeting
David Nurse
Citizenship and Immigration committee I have a couple of things. Obviously, as the gentlemen with the union said, more enforcement would be good, but I think it's also perhaps time for the government to go back to first principles. Why is the government continuing to try to regulate this occupation? Are there alterna
May 1st, 2017Committee meeting
David Nurse
Citizenship and Immigration committee Again, my second point is that in my view regulation is based on a false premise, that requiring very basic training in immigration law, policies and procedures, and imposing a code of conduct similar to that of lawyers is sufficient to give an individual a minimum level of compe
May 1st, 2017Committee meeting
David Nurse
Citizenship and Immigration committee Thank you very much. I would like to begin by thanking the committee members for the invitation to appear today. It is a privilege to have the opportunity. This is my second time before the committee, and I'm very pleased to be here. As noted, I am counsel with the Atlantic Ca
May 1st, 2017Committee meeting
David Nurse
Citizenship and Immigration committee Sorry. Just to finish the point, they need to see lawyers as partners in effective client service. That's what I'm asking for.
December 13th, 2016Committee meeting
David Nurse
Citizenship and Immigration committee First of all, I think you talked about humanizing the experience. Too often, although people haven't been hung up on, they come away feeling as though they have been. Maybe they asked one question, they got an unsatisfactory answer, and then there was sort of silence from the oth
December 13th, 2016Committee meeting
David Nurse
Citizenship and Immigration committee Yes. You asked about the role or the space for lawyers. I think that IRCC sometimes does not design things to facilitate collaboration between IRCC, the client, and the lawyer involved. For example, using the online portal for authorized representatives, I can create applicatio
December 13th, 2016Committee meeting
David Nurse
Citizenship and Immigration committee I can't follow that.
December 13th, 2016Committee meeting
David Nurse
Citizenship and Immigration committee I think that announcement is positive. I think that shortening the guide is certainly useful, and looking at the language again is useful. For in-Canada applications, it's a processing time issue, which you would be well aware of. There's a commitment, I believe, to shorten the a
December 13th, 2016Committee meeting
David Nurse