Let's say we get rid of conditional permanent residence. The women who are coming in as a sponsored spouse will be a permanent resident the minute they land, right? The only situation, I think, where a woman is in a spousal relationship and their status is conditional upon the marriage or somehow tied to the sponsor is when they're applying from within Canada. They are here under some kind of status, maybe as a visitor or a refugee, and their spouse, as a Canadian citizen or permanent resident, is sponsoring them. It's in those situations, I think, where they are the most vulnerable.
I think, yes, it's definitely facilitating the faster processing of these cases. But more importantly, when the sponsorship breaks down, don't automatically send the women back to wherever they come from. I guess somehow they still have the problem of proving that there is abuse. Unfortunately, I don't know if you can get around that. But if there are ways of showing that the sponsorship breaks down because of the abuse, then they should be landed, no matter what. I think that's where we see the system becoming problematic. Even where the women are able to prove there's abuse they are still being deported.