Citizenship and Immigration committee  What about your side, Madam Mendez-Smith?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  People, do they pay something? You're offering the service. Do they pay each time? Is it a free service?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Okay. Madam Smith, I am going to switch to French. I have very limited time and I want to speak fast. Are there not enough refugees and immigrants? Have you tried to get immigrants to come to your counties to look for work? Is that an approach you use? If not, is it simply a ma

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's before they come to the country.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Okay, that's one specific thing. On your side, Mr. Calla, do you have any other approaches? Is it only people who are already in Canada?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. With regard to the study and the way we consider the establishment of this college or this new body to regulate the activities of immigration consultants, have you determined that the process will ensure that the files of all types of immigrants—and in so

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

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  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.