Well, it's a family class sponsorship, and many a time, depending on the nature and the background of some nationalities, they may have met only briefly, or for the first time, when they got married. Therefore, let's say you go through a process of sponsoring the person to Canada and this question arises: the person comes, discovers that he or she is not compatible, does not like the other spouse after a very brief time together of maybe a week or two, and the immigrating spouse to Canada—not the sponsor, but the applicant coming to Canada—says, “He's threatening me”, or whatever the circumstances are, and they leave, or they charge the spouse with assault and so forth. At times, I have had both sides of the street, within a very short period of time—sometimes even a week or two—where the spouses have not cohabited and one leaves the other.
I know there's an issue pertaining to how we'll address this issue. I've heard, or at least I've read in the media, that if they do not cohabit, then the spouse who came to Canada, the applicant, the sponsored spouse, may be removed from Canada because he or she is breaching the terms and conditions of their coming to Canada as a sponsored spouse to begin with.
I say that's a possibility, and I don't discount that, but you really have to take a look at the fact that at times there is abuse, there is assault, or there may be a problem with drugs or alcohol. If that's an issue the government has considered, fine, but please take a look at other issues that may ameliorate that person not being able to live with that sponsoring spouse.