In terms of your other comment about perhaps an evidence-based method of dealing with fraudulent marriages, if the percentage of fraudulent marriages is so low—maybe one in 1,000, and I assume it's less than 1%—would there not be a better idea for those that are marriages of convenience? For example, the spouse finds out he was duped just so the bride could come into Canada—in the foreign brides or mail-order brides situation, or in arranged marriages when they have somebody else in mind, so they just want to get to Canada and then they will divorce and then bring the actual person they love. Would an evidence-based process be better, where the spouse who was duped could actually say, “Hey, I just found these emails” or “I found out that this relationship existed before the whole thing I was duped into”? It would be the same case for somebody who went to Cuba and instantly fell in love, as in the case that was mentioned, but found out that it was all a sham just to get here. Somebody could investigate that, if it were evidence-based, rather than having the whole system designed to just deal with these 0.01% of marriages.
On November 1st, 2016. See this statement in context.