Ottawa’s efforts to tackle unauthorized immigration practitioners welcome

The majority of these unauthorized practitioners operate outside Canada’s border. In a bid to address that, the feds' legislation introduces an extraterritorial clause.

Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen, pictured on the Hill in September 2018. The Liberal government has introduced new provisions under their budget implementation bill that aim to deter unauthorized immigration practitioners. The Hill Times file photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY Gerd Damitz

April 29, 2019

In its June 2017 report, the House Immigration Committee identified unauthorized practitioners as a major problem. The report proposed a government-licensed federal statute to fix deficiencies with current regulator, the Immigrat...

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