Phil Mooney Using $1 million CIC Funding for his Own Office Rent!

At the ICCRC town hall meeting, Phil Mooney, the self-appointed President/CEO of the proposed immigration regulator ICCRC, advised where ICCRC funding was from.  He said that $1 million was provided by Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC).  ICCRC was incorporated on February 18, 2011 at 1100 Burloak Drive, Suite 300, Burlington, Ontario.  Interestingly, Phil Mooney's business address is 1100 Burloak Drive, Suite 300, Burlington!  ICCRC has no authority, it is not the regulator, and yet from February 18, 2011 until now and continuing indefinitely until the legal and political processes are completed, CIC is paying Phil Mooney's office rent!!  Imagine what Phil Mooney will do with Members' money if he is spending CIC's money for ICCRC on his own office space!

Despite lacking any authority, and ignoring the fact that legal (CSIC's judicial review) and political (publication in Part II of the Canada Gazette) processes are ongoing, the ICCRC are also spending CIC (taxpayers) money on self-promotion at Town Hall meetings.  CIC has in fact put out a bulletin advising that immigration consultants must remain members in good standing of CSIC until, when and if, the regulations come into effect.  Yet CIC's message is undercut by ICCRC, who continue to mislead the public and CSIC Members to believe the regulatory changes will take place any day, and the outcome is pre-determined.  ICCRC states that members in good standing as of March 19, 2011 can join ICCRC...yet ICCRC was not, and still is not the regulator as of today, June 9.

ICCRC have put out extremely vague job postings; it would appear that almost anyone is qualified to be Registrar/Education Manager/Director of Complaints and Discipline!  Also, good luck Mr. Mooney getting any highly-qualified person to work in Burlington!  Clearly Burlington was chosen for the convenience of Phil Mooney, not accessibility to the public, members, or staff!  Maybe that's the point, Phil Mooney will hire his friends for the jobs, continuing the pattern of cronyism, because he won't get any remotely skilled person to apply.  Now we know where the rest of the $1 million will be spent...paying staff until whenever, and if ever, the political and legal processes finish and if Minister Kenney &CIC have still not woken up to the incompetence of ICCRC!