CSIC filed a motion, asking the Federal Court for a stay to prevent the Minister from proceeding with the regulatory changes until CSIC's judicial review application was heard and decided on. That motion was dismissed. So now, what will happen if the Minister proceeds to replace CSIC with ICCRC?
ICCRC has no staff, other than Phil Mooney's friends who have been given plum positions on ICCRC's interim board. There currently is no one to whom files could be transferred. Eventually ICCRC may hire staff, however none of the staff will have any experience or knowledge on the process of registering immigration consultants. The chances of any CSIC staff working at ICCRC are remote; ICCRC will have to figure it out for themselves, with a transitional period involving 1900 CSIC members and only 120 days in which to complete the transition. Good luck! I am sure Phil Mooney will make sure his friends are transitioned first...the infamous Jeffrey Hemlin will be top priority despite his revocation!
CSIC Members would probably quickly stop paying fees to CSIC. CSIC staff will likely find other employment too. Who will pay for the transition of files from CSIC, and if CSIC staff leaves during the transition period, how will files get transferred to ICCRC before the end of that 120 day period? Good luck! Again, Phil Mooney's friends will get top priority leaving it to everyone else to pray that whoever remains at CSIC during the transition period will get to your file within that 120 day transition period.
The first CSIC Members to register at ICCRC, after CAPIC and Phil Mooney's friends, will be the ones at disciplinary hearings with CSIC right now. Anoo Lal, Parvinder and Devinder Sandhu, Gurpreet and Kamalpreet Khaira, Ding Yan, Joan Raymond, Jun Cheng, and Jeffrey Hemlin. As CSIC Members in good standing, they can register with ICCRC without any difficulty, expecting that CSIC's jurisdiction will end once they join ICCRC. These Members, I suspect, can hire very expensive lawyers to make sure they have no problems becoming ICCRC members very quickly. These lawyers will be very quick to file for judicial review if ICCRC makes any mistakes. Good luck to those of you who can't afford an expensive lawyer, you will have to fight for yourself!
ICCRC has no infrastructure whatsoever. ICCRC operates out of Phil Mooney's office in Burlington, and has no capacity for handling the registration of 1900 CSIC Members within 120 days. They have been busy spending money from CIC on town hall meetings, paying Phil Mooney's office rent, and making ridiculous public announcements about chasing ghost consultants; and advising everyone who is listening that the ICCRC is 100% guaranteed to be the new regulator of immigration consultants. That doesn't leave much money to pay for the infrastructure required to properly register members, and commence effectively regulating these members. Good luck to everyone out there whose livelihoods depend on ICCRC competence and capacity to register every CSIC Member before the end of the transitional period!
CSIC's leave and judicial review application will not go away, although ICCRC will like to starve CSIC from funding for the legal action. Stay tuned to see what will happen there!
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