Exactly.
What's happening is that while the application is going on.... If the application is turned down, deport the person. Absolutely. But I'm talking about while they are processing the application. Sometimes it takes eight months, sometimes a year. If in the last month or so of the determination process a person were to get booted out to their own country, that would make absolutely no sense. It would create financial hardship for the couple. It would also create tremendous emotional hardship.
The reason why having a work permit also makes a lot of sense is.... I know of a recent case of a couple, and the wife is a Canadian, born in Canada, and she has a brain tumour. You may have seen this; it's in Sault Ste. Marie. She's dying of cancer. She has a husband here in Canada who's going through the application process. Her husband is not able to work. As a result, this couple is in desperate financial means.
In Sault Ste. Marie local residents have come together to support this couple, as she cannot work, obviously, because she is very sick. Her husband wants to work, but because he's being sponsored he's not allowed to work.
In these kinds of cases it makes no sense for us not to allow them to work if they are capable of contributing to Canada through their taxes and through working. Why not allow them to work?