Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'd like to add that the $51 million—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No problem. It's just that the minister told us—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I can add numbers to that. About 12 years ago when we did the last survey, approximately 27% of the people who applied with immigration were represented. A study done last year, after the CIMM 2017 report, says we have now 68% of people being represented by lawyers and consulta

Citizenship and Immigration committee  If you do, you might get the wrong advice, so watch out. Nine out of 10 times, it's guaranteed.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Sure, absolutely. The act goes miles ahead of where we expected it to go, but we very clearly do not have an alternative. It's very simply put in the act that if the current regulator does not adopt it, it will be reinvented, which means it will be set up anyway. Therefore, there

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Andrew is absolutely right. Previously, if you operated or gave immigration advice—as Madam Chair said yesterday, we have to address the definition of “legal advice”—it was an immigration infraction. Now it would be against the law to do that.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  To add to what David said earlier, there has been a disciplinary process for the past six years; we're a new profession. They've been spending a whole bunch of time developing the processes. As they see the first example, as they see the person defend themselves, they've been twe

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, Mr. Sarai. I'm glad you brought it up, because nobody else did, and my arguments were falling on deaf ears. That's what the law society's has adopted: a minimum insurance to insure that particular liability. On the compensation fund suggested here, and what we've bee

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It should be but unfortunately there's collection; levies have to be collected and there are administrative costs. What happened, as we saw in financial statements, was that the fund was depleted, and every year the previous regulator went back to the members, levied them again a

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes. It's generally referred to as a criminal compensation fund so it's only in cases of criminal activities. Members already have an errors and omissions insurance, which covers that line.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I just wanted to add to what David said. Two years ago—time actually makes you forget right there—I had provided documents that I was asked for to tell you that of the examples we looked at at the last standing committee, 12 were unauthorized consultants. Two of them were defini

Citizenship and Immigration committee  —so that they could be chaired by a director. The powers of the registrar are too strong, and they need to be curtailed or examined, or have an appeal mechanism. I don't know who is being exempted from insurance. Everybody should be insured, so that needs looking into. On de

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Madam Chair, and esteemed members of the committee, thank you for having invited me here today. My name is Alli Amlani, and I participated in meeting number 55 in 2017, so I'm very familiar with the subject. I've been an immigration consultant since the beginning of 1988. I've