Presenter/s: Lynn Gaudet B.A., LLB., RCIC
Date: 22 April 2026
Time: 11 am to 2:15 pm Pacific
Location: webinar
Type: webinar and recording
Price: $75.00
CPD approval:
- CICC 3 CPD hours approved. Video recording will expire on 22 April 2027. Attendance will be valid for 3 CPD hours of Professionalism.
- LSBC 3 CPD hours approved. Video recording will expire on 31 December 2026. Attendance will provide you with 45 minutes of ethics and professional responsibility component for your BC Law Society reporting.
- Law Societies of Alberta, Manitoba, Newfoundland and Labrador, and the Barrister's Society of Nova Scotia
- For members of these Law Societies, consider including this course as a CPD learning activity in your mandatory annual requirements.
TALKING ETHICS: A Four-Part Series
This series focusses on many nuances of the Code of Professional Conduct that will help you in your practice. The Code, along with key College Regulations, provides a blueprint for how to do things properly and stay out of trouble with your clients, colleagues and the College. All sessions are geared to both experienced RCICs as well as those relatively new to the profession. Both will pick up useful tips from expert guidance. The focus is very practical, providing sound advice on how to handle typical practice issues and prevent client complaints.
OUTLINE
Session 1 – Aspects of Immigration Practice: How the Code Applies
Relevant sections of the Code of Professional Conduct that govern routine activities of RCICs are dispersed throughout the Code and not always obvious. In this session, we examine ten common aspects of immigration practice and delve into those sections of the Code most applicable to them, such as collecting unpaid bills or working with other licensees. This seminar provides expert guidance for using the Code as a blueprint for developing protocols for these activities that meet Code requirements and protect client interests.
TOPICS TO BE COVERED
This session will highlight and explain those sections of the Code that most impact the following regular activities of RCICs:
- Finding clients
- What cases you can take on
- Working with other licensed practitioners
- Communicating with clients
- Collecting unpaid fees
- Terminating a service agreement early
- Representing both spouses
- Representing both the employer and worker
- Providing other non-immigration services to clients
- Hiring translators and interpreters
College of Citizenship and Immigration - Essential Competency mapping
RCIC
Case Management
2.2 Engages in a process to ensure the client is fully informed and able to make a decision whether to proceed with the RCICs professional services and enter into a retainer agreement.
2.2.4 Advises the client of the RCICs scope of practice, personal competence and practice limitations.
2.9 Maintains accurate and current client records and documentation according to regulatory requirements.
Business Management and Leadership
4.1 Demonstrates leadership skills in the immigration and citizenship consulting practice.
4.1.3 Acts as an expert in the Canadian immigration and citizenship filed by providing advice and consultation to clients and other professionals.
Professionalism
6.1 Demonstrates and maintains competence in practice
6.1.2 Stays current and complies with legislation, regulation, professional standards, policies and guidelines.
Speaker/s:
Lynn Gaudet B.A., LLB. RCIC
Lynn is a Regulated Canadian Immigration Consultant (RCIC) who operated her own business as a sole practitioner in Calgary, AB for 17 years from 2004-2021, is now semi-retired in Nanaimo, BC. Her practice areas spanned a broad spectrum of immigration and refugee applications with a focus on Permanent Resident applications and criminal inadmissibility issues. She also has decades of experience in adult education - teaching, writing and developing instructional materials such as the Immigration Practitioner’s Handbook published annually by Thomson Carswell Ltd. from 2006-2012.
Lynn is currently an Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Law at Queens University teaching in the Graduate Program in Immigration and Citizenship Law [GDipICL]. She has taught the Ethics and Professional Responsibility Course for the Program since its inception and has also served as the Coordinating Instructor with responsibility for the curriculum.
She has a B.A. in Communications from Simon Fraser University and an LL.B. from the University of Victoria. She is a licensee in good standing of the College of Immigration and Citizenship Consultants (CICC). In 2025, she was the recipient of the inaugural award for Teaching Excellence in the Graduate Diploma in Immigration and Citizenship Law at Queen’s University.
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