Sponsoring Niece from abroad

You can sponsor:

• brothers or sisters, nephews or nieces, granddaughters
              or grandsons who are orphaned, under 18 years of age and not
  married or in a common-law
             relationship
• another relative of any age or relationship but only
  under specific
                     conditions (see Note below)

<a name="who_cannot" id="who_cannot"></a>Note:
you can sponsor one relative regardless of age or relationship only
           if you do not have a living spouse or common-law partner, conjugal
partner,
           a son or daughter, parent, grandparent, sibling, uncle, aunt, nephew
or niece
           who could be sponsored as a member of the family class, and you do
not have
           any relative who is a Canadian citizen or a permanent resident or
registered
           as an Indian under the Indian Act.... so doesn't this mean that the sponsorship of nieces are allowed?...

since I am new I would just like to clarify this point of discussion.... thanks and I hope someone can clarify this point ;-)