Citizenship and Immigration committee  The college would be self-funded by fees paid by consultants.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We envision that the compensation fund, which would be managed by the college, would be funded through the college's resources, perhaps through a levy on members. As well, if there are monetary penalties as a result of disciplinary decisions, for example, those penalties could go

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It would come out of the bylaws as they're established, but the obligation for additional training, if you're appearing before a tribunal, is something that's set out in the statute itself.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Madame Chair, there are very detailed transitional provisions set out in the bill so as to try to make sure there is the least disruption possible for both clients and consultants themselves, and so there aren't disciplinary or enforcement issues that fall through the cracks. A l

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The legislation doesn't go into that level of detail, but it does require the complaints committee to consider every complaint brought to it. Of course, there are challenges sometimes with the actual investigation if someone's not willing to come forward, but that would be worked

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Certainly, and that's part of what the budget investments are for, to provide more resources to CBSA to pursue criminal investigations, which can result in both imprisonment and fines. As the minister noted, those fines would be doubling.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That would be set by bylaws by the college.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, although I understand the ICCRC has been working with the IRB around what it could look like.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Under the current framework, under the Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act, no members of the board of the ICCRC are appointed by the minister. There are public interest directors under their own constitution, but most are elected by the board itself or by the membership. This

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It would be just the public interest directors; there would be elected members as well who would be elected from amongst the membership.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Certainly, in relation to consultants and increased robustness around the regulation of the consultant industry, there would be, as the minister laid out, a number of additional recourses and consequences for either unscrupulous or unauthorized practice. As it relates to temporar

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I believe the committee will be hearing from them later today, but we have certainly been in regular contact with them. We have talked to them about the proposed changes. The reaction we have received has been fairly positive.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  In terms of paralegals, in Ontario at least, that issue was resolved in part by bringing them in as members of the law society and governing them through that mechanism. Consultants are another option, but it would have to have been addressed by every province in order for that t

Citizenship and Immigration committee  What's being proposed here is a regulatory body that would govern immigration and citizenship consultants. In terms of whether they should or shouldn't be filling out forms, I guess I would say that anyone who was acting as an immigration consultant would have to meet the qualif

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Under the status quo, under the existing framework, for example, immigration consultants can't necessarily appear before a court. They can appear before the IRB, an immigration tribunal, but what is new within the proposed legislation would be they would be required to have extra