Regulating Immigration Consultants and Other Funny Jokes

By Edar 'Cinnikull' Aihil

Immigration Consultants The Federal Cracking Down on Crooked Consultants Act is yet another example of genius ideas that could only originate from government committees and inter-departmental projects relying on expensive studies, funded ‘experts’ and fact finding missions to exotic locations – thus creating more work for each other and jobs for the boys.

Or may be it’s a psychological comedy play whose name cannot be uttered with a straight face: Cracking Up with Crooked Consultants – Act I… harharhar. Please!

Canadian Immigration Consultants Regulatory Council Proposals

According to the sales pitch which I think won the hearts and minds of folks at the Immigration Ministry, the Act “will allow law enforcement authorities to lay criminal charges against the so-called ‘ghost consultants,’ who prey on vulnerable would-be migrants but are off the officials’ radar” said The Star.

Fair enough. But perhaps some junior intern should have dared asking the stupid question during that presentation:

“Er… excuse me for asking this, but aren’t some of these would-be immigrant people supposed to be in, like, other countries, which are, like, NOT in Canada… like, the reason they’re called ‘immigrants’ in the first place?”

“Yes, but what is your point?” Sharply replied the slick suited, gel-haired, upwardly mobile ‘Immigration Consultant’ who had helped draft the bill after years of study and government funding.

“Shhh… support our troops…” Whispered a high-ranking official into the stupid intern’s ear and patted her hand patronisingly.

Indeed you silly newbie! I guess the junior intern was relieved of a precious summer internship.

May be our law enforcement agencies have a secret jurisdictional authority to lay criminal charges in other sovereign countries, after all.

“Support our troops!” Mumbled the stupid intern as she packed her stuff and left the parliament building.

Published: August 2nd, 2010

Comments

http://www.correresmidestino.com Zhu

I agree, it’s kind of dumb since a lot of these shady consultants are based abroad. Yet, quite a few are in Canada and prey on refugees or people with expired status. Better that than nothing I guess.
MCH

Funny how every occupation is regulated in Canada. I’m not surprised that it comes to Immigration Consultant this time though. Here’s another informative article on the issue authored by an immigration lawyer: http://www.canadianimmigrant.ca/settlingincanada/immigrationlaw/article/7311
Dick Wazinya

Forgive the Canadians, for they do not understand what they do. They do enjoy a good belch, Eskimo-racism, and American bashing. Canadians do not possess the intellect required to own and operate a sense of humor; however, they are easily conditioned. And, the entire unnecessarily bi-lingual nation has been conditioned to open their mouths and make noise when they hear belching, Eskimo-racism and/or American bashing.
http://InternetExplorer Malloy

Has anybody heard of something called ‘a necessary evil?’ well, I think Canadian Immigration Consultants have managed to acquire this infamous distinction. In other words, you can’t live with them, but you will have a bitch of a time trying to live without them.
Over the past 50 years at the very least,Immigration consultancy has become a humongous industry in Canada. A lucratrive one at that, for those countries receiving immigrants, but a destructive and destabilizing force to those countries having no other options but to let their citizens go.
For those of us clamoring to have Immigration Consultancy dismantled, I say we are just barking off the wrong tree. For one thing, what is to become of those hundreds of thousands of Immigration Lawyers, judges,paralegals etc? Add to that scores of recruiters spread across the under developped world. What are those people going to do? You see, the abolition of slavery was no more the result of a world coming to terms with the bestiality of such a practice, than stopping apartheid in South Africa was the latter day convrsion of some Afrikaaners who suddenly decided they’ve had enough with that system. Those two events happened because that economic system had run its course. But even today, there is still tremendous support around the world for the concept of having a man work for nothing. In short, slavery.
And every day, conditions are being engineered by some countries to see that slavery never dies. Two year after I became a landed immigrant in Canada, I began running into people from the real outback of Haiti–the type of people Canadians would consider ‘hillbillies.’ Now. the areas them folks came from , if you happen to go there, you’d have to search long and hard to find one transistor radio, even today…this means that such areas are so remote and disconnected to any form of civilization even within that island. In spite of that fact, those people are here in Canada, the United States and Europe. I have for the longest time wondered how those people managed to make travel arrangements to find their way to North America. Well, as luck would have it, the answer came to me quite by accident: Immigrant Scouts (just like baseball scouts)from some International Recruiting Network. In the last three trips I took to Haiti between 1990 and 2000, I met three different groups of Canadians, Americans and Europeans returning from areas in Haiti even the government doesn’t know exist. Of course I engaged them in conversation to know why the particular interest in such remote areas…their answer… always a special revelation by the Spirit of the Lord. Of course there are small groups of Haitians living in those remote areas. But don’t kid yourself, if a school, a hospital or an orphanage was the focus of those humanitarians, they could’ve found a lot of places closer to civilization with more crying needs than the areas they’ve picked.
So, brace yourself for what’s coming to Canada and it immigration system.
Laurieanne87

Im a Canadian and we are a very nice bunch of people , and not racist … more mixed then any other place I believe . Also personally I think you are just jealous of our government free health care awesome dental plans well economised who wouldn’t want to be a Canadian :)
Dick Wazinya

I do like a righteous belch and using a lot of apostrophes when I write… Maybe I been looking you Canuck’s all wrong…