I'm going to make myself unpopular at this table and say that I'm actually not in favour of reducing the income level for sponsorship. That would probably be the bottom of my list, personally. What would be number one? I would say maybe dealing with the definition of “dependent child”. I do agree with the position that the age right now is a little bit too low to be realistic. I mean, most people are in college or university when they're 19 years old. But one thing that I disagree with is that I don't think we should go back to the previous definition, which allowed an exception for full-time students. It was a nightmare for visa officers to try to figure out who was a genuine student. You had people who were 35 years old and were already on their fifth master, just trying to stay in school to be dependent. I think that was a logistical nightmare.
On October 27th, 2016. See this statement in context.