The press released was corrected several days after it was published. In fact, the legislation didn’t actually come into force until Dec. 26, 2020, according to a cached version preserved by the Wayback Machine internet archive.
#Federal express full#
“With today’s announcement, the minister is honouring his mandate commitment to advance the full implementation of the new professional governance regime for immigration and citizenship consultants,” the original press release read on Nov. The government issued a press release a few days later, in which Mendicino declared the College of Immigration and Citizenship Consultants Act had indeed come into force. That information was also passed on to the Federal Court.
On the day of the court hearing, the Privy Council published an order on its website declaring the legislation to establish the college had come into force. The allegations stem from the creation of a new college to regulate immigration consultants in 2020.Īn existing firm called the Immigration Consultants of Canada Regulatory Council took the government to Federal Court in an attempt to stop it from using a similar name: the College of Immigration and Citizenship Consultants. The House of Commons committee on immigration has called an urgent meeting next week to discuss allegations that the department and former minister misled a federal judge during a trademark infringement case - an allegation former immigration minister Marco Mendicino has categorically denied.
0 kommentar(er)
