I have to say that in the immigrant communities I deal with, largely, in the work I do at Parkdale, we don't have a huge issue with regulation 117(9)(d).
I know there are many cases that are caught by it. The problem, as has already been discussed, is that those cases, then, are permanently barred from a sponsorship, and then it's only a humanitarian application, which is discretionary. As the earlier witnesses said, it's long, it's slow, and it's uncertain, and there may be very good explanations for why that child was left off the application.
So, I would agree with what was said earlier, that the solution is to do away with the provision.