Minister Jason Kenney and Citizenship & Immigration Canada (CIC) blame the crooked consultants for the broken immigration system. Ghosts were unregulated, and in fact have been endorsed by CIC for seven years through IP9, CIC's operational manual that legitimizes ghost consulting prior to the submission of the application.
In 2003, the Advisory Committee on Regulating Immigration Consultants recommended that CIC impose sanctions on ghost consultants, and in 2008 and 2009 the Standing Committee again advised CIC to amend IP 9 and penalize ghost consultants. The Standing Committee Report in 2008 in fact said that CSIC had never been given the tools to succeed, and a key tool was penalizing ghost consultants. CIC and the Minister took no action, and now rather than admitting their role in the flourishing practice of legitimized ghost consultants through IP9, they blame CSIC as the scapegoat. The Minister and CIC have misled Canadians to believe that changing the regulator will fix the problem. Actually, ICCRC instead has established a monopoly over the business, and ghosts will simply work as agents of immigration lawyers and ICCRC members to gain legitimacy. Cronyism rather than regulation is the future of immigration consulting under ICCRC.
Another example is in the rise in fraudulent job offers which was the result of Minister Kenney's de-emphasis on skills as qualification for Permanent Residence, and greater emphasis on job offers. To apply for immigration with a job offer, you must first apply to HRSDC, or Service Canada, for a Labour Market Opinion (LMO) or an Arranged Employment Opinion (AEO). You do not need to be an authorized representative to apply for an LMO or AEO. Ghost consultants, through IP9, were legitimately able to get an LMO or an AEO based on a fraudulent job offer, then disappear once the application was submitted to CIC. The Minister and CIC will have you believe that it is authorized CSIC Members getting these fraudulent job offers, but why would anyone hire a CSIC Member to get a fraudulent job offer, when there are 1000s of ghost consultants operating within the law as interpreted by CIC; and as we know ghosts are unaccountable for committing immigration fraud.
Marriages of convenience are another area where ghost consultants have been able to operate, again with the acceptance of CIC, because all of the fraud is created prior to the submission of the application. Why would you hire an authorized CSIC Member to commit marriage fraud when there are 1000s of ghost consultants operating within the law as interpreted by CIC; and as we know ghosts are unaccountable for committing immigration fraud.
Finally, what about immigrants who are victimized by crooked consultants? Let me shed a light on the true positions of key players, who cannot reveal their true response to the subject:
Minister Kenney's honest answer: they are not my problem because immigrants are not voters. Immigrants and their Permanent Resident relatives are not voters, so I just need to pretend to care for the sake of Canadian citizens who do vote.
CIC's honest answer: After we get their processing fee, we will find a way to refuse their application. If someone is ripped off prior to submission, that is not our problem.
ICCRC/CAPIC's honest answer: We just want to get rich off these immigrants. CSIC stops people like Hemlin from getting rich, so we launched a campaign to get rid of CSIC by spreading false information about CSIC at the Standing Committee and amongst CSIC Members. Mooney/CAPIC used their connection with Les Linklater of CIC to influence peddle us into the position of being the proposed new regulator. Now we can continue to get rich without having to answer to a regulator that is not in favour of our financial interests.
Who will speak up for the interests of immigrants? Not Minister Kenney, CIC or ICCRC/CAPIC.
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