In terms of the discriminatory impact, you can look at it from two ways.
First of all, if there is an income requirement, it means that only those who will meet the income requirement will be able to sponsor their wife. Up to this point, the spousal sponsorship so far has not been subject to this requirement, I think because the Canadian government recognizes that spouses and dependent children are an integral part of our families, so they do not want to make a distinction between people who are rich enough to sponsor and those who are not. Having this become a requirement will have that impact on affecting some people who will no longer be able to sponsor.
The other side of this discriminatory impact is the language and education requirements. By and large, at least from the stats that I can see, the sponsored spouse, like those who are being sponsored to Canada, tend to be more women than men. I think with more and more people coming in as temporary foreign workers—different classes of labour, who then transition into permanent residents—I think you will see more and more men coming in than women. If they are then to sponsor the spouse, then women will still be the ones sponsored. It will be those women who will not be able to meet the requirement if they don't have the language and education requirements. It will be women who are being affected by those requirements.
In both ways, both the income requirement on the sponsor and the language and education requirements on the sponsored, it will have a discriminatory impact.
On the other hand, I think we could look at increasing the age of consent, the age of marriage. I think that people in general would agree that this is a good idea. The only thing I would say is that we certainly don't want forced marriages, but I don't know who will be the best person to make that decision about whether it is an arranged marriage or a forced marriage and what kind of training the immigration officer will need to be able to distinguish between the two. I think that's something we will need to consider.