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.
The allegations stem from the creation of a new college to regulate immigration consultants in 2020.
An 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.
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….