Kenney Deregulates & Endangers Canadian Public Interest

The fact is, Kenney has decided to deregulate immigration consultants in a way that threatens the Canadian public interest.  Why?  Apparently Citizenship & Immigration Canada supports CAPIC, the Canadian Association of Professional Immigration Consultants, a trade association advocating the interests of immigration consultants, over the regulator, CSIC, the Canadian Society of Immigration Consultants acting in the public interest.  Here is the result you can expect if the proposed regulator is changed from CSIC to CAPIC/ICCRC:

In the public interest, specific rules prohibit immigration consultants from controlling their clients' assets that are invested through the investor programs.  Companies cannot be set up, with the assistance of an immigration consultant, as shell corporations to be wound down once the person attains Permanent Residency and immigrates to Canada.  In the interests of immigration consultants, represented by CAPIC/ICCRC, immigration consultants such as CAPIC President Hemlin take control of their clients' assets and run the company without taking directions from their clients.  The company is a shell, a vehicle to attain Permanent Residency that will then be wound down once the client successfully immigrates to Canada.

In the public interest, the immigration consultant must know their client, and cannot represent unknown individuals with potentially shady pasts.  The immigration consultant is held responsible if they have assisted someone to immigrate to Canada who they knew or ought to have known is a danger to the Canadian public.  In the interests of immigration consultants, tehre is a lot of money to be made by assisting individuals to come into Canada who have a shady history.  In fact, the greatest profits come to an ICCRC member from dodgy individuals who need an expert to assist them to hide their shadiness from immigration officials.  ICCRC will allow such an immigration consultant to argue willful blindness justifies working with shady individuals.

Finally, in the public interest immigration consultants are subject to public disciplinary hearings for serious professional misconduct.  Justice must not only be done, but must be seen to be done and hence the hearings and decisions are public knowledge.  In the interests of immigration consultants, serious misconduct is covered up, and hearings are to be avoided.  The public must be misled to believe that only ghost consultants are crooked, not authorized immigration consultants.

Thanks to Jason Kenney, whose vision of the future of immigration consulting is shown by his support for deregulation through ICCRC: investor programs being vehicles for rich clients to attain Permanent Residency, whose companies are wound down upon their successful immigration to Canada; dodgy applicants are assisted, at an enormous profit to immigration consultants, to enter Canada illegally, endangering the Canadian public interest; and misconduct is covered up to promote the false belief that only ghost consultants are crooked, not authorized immigration consultants.