(Ottawa) The House of Commons Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration has called an emergency meeting to consider allegations that the Department of Citizenship and Immigration misled a judge , which former Minister Marco Mendicino categorically denies.
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The allegations stem from the creation of a new college to regulate immigration consultants in 2020.
An existing firm called “Immigration Consultants of Canada Regulatory Council” had sued the federal government over the use of that name.
On the day of the hearing before the judge, the Privy Council issued an order in council announcing the coming into force of legislation establishing the College of Immigration and Citizenship Consultants.
The government issued a statement a few days later in which Mr. Mendicino announced that the College of Immigration and Citizenship Consultants Act had already entered into force, even if it took two weeks for this to really be the case.
Alex Cohen, Mr. Mendicino’s director of communications, explained that it was human error. The court had been notified as soon as the officials noticed it.