Citizenship and Immigration committee  You need to go to court for that. You don't go to court for immigration—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you. Mr. Dean, do you want to react?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I want to come back to the issue of costs. As you said, Mr. Dean, it costs more to deal with a lawyer. The average hourly rate of a lawyer can be very high. The fees of dealing with a consultant vary depending on the case. There is no particular fee mentioned in the report or in

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Are you suggesting that there be improved agreements with the various countries that have specific entries into Canada?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. Gentlemen, thank you for joining us this morning. I will get straight to the issue. The purpose of the proposed legislation is to regulate consultants and protect the public. It also seeks to reassure Canadian citizens about immigration and people apply

Citizenship and Immigration committee  You are saying that it already exists. How will the current regulations improve access to a certain level of security? Having the process is one thing, but making the process work is another. We don't really want complaints, but we want the process to handle them to be easier

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Mr. Jade, you have the floor.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Okay. Thank you for your answer. Mr. Gagnon, in your presentation, you mentioned that the problems are particularly common outside Canada. Future migrants who want to obtain Canadian status have problems outside Canada. In your experience, how will this bill, or this college of

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Can the consultants be outside Canada, or are the consultants only in Canada? Otherwise, the embassies in each country are responsible for managing the influx of immigration applications on an administrative level.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Can't we even have 10 seconds like the others, just to answer the last question?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I wanted to know whether the processing of immigration applications will be faster given that the process will be better controlled at the outset, the consultants will be trained, the consultants' work will be regulated, and there will no longer be any so-called ghost consultants

Citizenship and Immigration committee  All types of colleges provide annual or biennial training. Minimum requirements must be met to maintain the quality of the services provided. What's the plan for the training? Will it be biennial? Will there be a minimum requirement? If people fail to meet this minimum requiremen

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I imagine that the public information, in the case of these consultants, will end up on a site available to the public. If not, it should be. We see this for many other colleges. When regulating a profession, it's important to ensure that the consultants' licence is authentic and

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's more reassuring. We're also talking about clients who aren't Canadian citizens but who want to obtain Canadian citizenship. Some families want to be reunited. These files may be assigned to consultants whom they know or don't know, or whom they'll get to know. There's als