The ICCRC is claiming that they will go after ghost consultants, despite possessing no powers to subpoena evidence or witnesses, no regulatory experience, and very limited resources. In addition to going after ghosts, the ICCRC offers lower membership fees to it's members, fewer staff than CSIC (20 rather than 38), and free Continuing Professional Development (CPD).
CSIC and the government of Canada do not have sufficient resources to go after ghosts, how can ICCRC with fewer resources and no experience be capable of prosecuting ghosts? The answer is clearly that ICCRC members will not be regulated. A significant portion of ICCRC resources will have to target ghost consultants; ICCRC views ghosts as the problem not their members. ICCRC clearly is chasing ghosts.
ICCRC is going after their competitors, ghosts, rather than regulating their Members. ICCRC truly is reflective of the interests of immigration consultants: no public interest mandate, no consumer protection, no regulatory structures, and an immigration body that is in fact an arm of Citizenship & Immigration Canada (CIC) ICCRC is not an independent regulatory body ensuring consumer protection in the public interest. Such a body may suit the interests of CIC and immigration consultants; but immigrants will not be protected and the public interest will not be served.
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