Under the current Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, if one of the members of the family is inadmissible, then the entire family is inadmissible. This happens all the time.
The most frequent scenario we see is somebody sponsoring their parents and a younger brother, and the younger brother might have some medical issues. As a result, neither the parents nor the younger brother can come. That often creates a lot of hardship. There doesn't seem to be any rationale behind it. I think the committee could at least look at a compromise in those types of situations.
I agree with the person from the Council of Canadians with Disabilities. I think you have to look deeply at all of the medical inadmissibility issues. When you're focusing on this particular question, there is not a lot of common sense behind not allowing parents to come if the child is inadmissible, but that happens all the time.