Citizenship and Immigration committee  No. I don't think so.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  You may wish to consider amending section 91. Basically, we're here because of Mangat v. the Law Society of British Columbia and that turned out to be a paramountcy issue. That's why doing federal legal work, like immigration, is allowed in the first place. If you eliminate that

Citizenship and Immigration committee  ICCRC would be gone.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  They would be set by the provincial law societies.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm sure certain lawyers didn't want paralegals to be providing legal work in Ontario either. They'll have to be cognizant that, again, lawyers don't have a monopoly on the delivery of all legal work in Canada.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I don't know. The CBA thinks that getting rid of consultants altogether will have no impact on access to justice. I think it will. I think it can. I think that lawyers.... There's access to justice, and the legal system is overburdened as it is right now.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  By continuing to allow consultants to do immigration work, and not cutting them out of the equation.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm not sure if that's an issue. I've been on the board of Immigrant Services Calgary. Settlement agencies do provide some sort of transactional or form-filling.... That service is also provided by church pastors and church groups. I haven't seen that as an issue. Perhaps Mr. W

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm not saying that the current framework is akin to walking and chewing gum at the same time. It probably allows a consultant to do transactional-level work, application-level work. To get to that next tier, what we really need when we're talking about 320 hours.... For example,

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think you have a hold on a lawyer when there's a disciplinary proceeding. To be a lawyer is a significant part of your identity. If the law society intervenes, there's that fear, that anxiety, and the public shaming or the risk of losing that licence, and that's significant. No

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The government already rejects applications by ghost consultants if that IMM 5476 form has an individual who's not registered with ICCRC or is not a member of a provincial law society. The government won't process that, so that's already there. The reason they're ghost consultant

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We created a blacklist for employers that weren't complying with the labour market impact assessment or LMO regime, and that blacklist was a blank list for three or four years, so creating a list is only as effective as implementing it and enforcing it.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I don't know why there is a presumption that self-regulation is or should be the default. In this regard, I'm going to refer to the Clementi report, which studied the regulation of the legal profession in the United Kingdom. That report came out some time ago. It was critical of

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I believe that section 91 can be amended to the extent that it can allow immigration consultants, based on current framework, to do transactional level work within immigration: work permits, other applications for permanent residents, sponsorship applications, and that's it. Wh

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, I'm not adding another level. I'm saying that consultants, as of right now, do not have the core competencies to practise or advocate at the IRB. What I would say is that the consultants should have a split profession. I believe that we've had a unified tradition, with the b