http://www.canadavisa.com/canada-immigration-blog/2014/08/punishing-spousal-sponsors.html#comments
I don't know how many of you read this text, but it's pure true. It does feel like a punishment.
I legally worked in Canada until my visa expired and I enter this long wait to what I thought would be 6 months, now it has been 11 months, and I am denied to work when there's thousands of foreign workers in Canada that does not have the ties that I have with this country, being my husband a Canadian citizen by birth, that paid a very expensive government service that is still not even started.
Despite that, bad enough for our financial life, I can not get provincial health care or a document with my husbands last name or a driver's license. So in other words, we can not buy a new car, or rent/buy the house we want, we can not move to another province, we can not have a baby, I can not drive, I can not present legal documents with my married name, I can not travel to any events outside the country (like weddings or births), all I can do is sit and wait. For 6 months I was prepared, I was definitely not prepared for 11 months so far, it's mentally challenging.
In a governmental view here, all I see is stupidity, having that many people sitting and waiting inside Canada, when we could be out there working, paying taxes, buying goods, and not getting into debts.