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Different focus, are the international students displacing Canadian applicants in the programs that the higher education institution offers?

Canadian Geography. Canada is the second-biggest country on earth, yet over 80 per cent of its land is uninhabited. Perhaps these intl students can stay and regenerate new areas

Your insights into the challenges facing my Canada are thought-provoking. Like any country, Canada is changingy, and addressing the very diverse concerns of its citizens future is a must. We find ourselves on a demographic cliff, a challenge documented since the baby boom in the '50s, with the repercussions felt today. The lack of prior planning is evident, and knee-jerk reactions from the government raise significant concerns for both those born here and those immigrating. \n \nAs a Canadian born and raised, I also worry about the future of my own children. The pace at which our builders are asked to construct is unrealistic. In 2023, builders were told to build 4.25 times faster than before, an impossible feat. While there may be available land for development, the shortage of builders makes the goal unattainable. In my local area, builders are working tirelessly, but the demand outpaces the supply. In Canada, for every 14 retiring construction workers there is only one to replace them. \n \nIn 2022, Canada welcomed 437,000 new permanent residents, over 604,000 temporary workers, 500,000 foreign students, and nearly 100,000 refugees, all of which significantly impact housing. More of the same in 2023, and I am sure more in 2024. Canada wants to grow its population to 100M people by 2100. We are only at 40M. Navigating the demographic cliff is an ongoing challenge, and more growing pains are expected. \n \nIt's important to acknowledge that perspectives vary based on one's region, economic status, and social context. If you reside in a rapidly growing area, your perspective might differ from those in other regions. The Canada of the past is transforming into a more multicultural future, which will help us all define our new path—whether it be in politics, economies, social issues, or regional dynamics. Your quoted figures lack context, and it's essential to consider the polls and news sources shaping your perspective on Canadians feeling Canada is 'broken.' As a Canadian, I certainly know it is changing.

Cut student visas. Expand the ukrianian visas

YES THEY ARE. We need to stop this process immediately and deport the students in Canada and stop approving PR process

This is a little skewed, most of the international students I've met came from affluent families.

International students in STEM is ok

I’m in a Toronto university for computer science and 90% of the kids at international students from India

Simple solution: only allow international student to study in Quebec and they have to get their education in French

Does this mean it is harder for local students to get spots at local universities as well?

He's full of crap and makes me sick, no one likes you Resign, smoke screen, nothing to do with international students, has everything to do with his record immigrants he's let in that take priority housing over Canadian homeless, 2.5 million and still going, tens of thousands Ukrainians in the next month, why aren't they living on the street? Hmmm! Maybe because they're housed long before getting here, Trudeau is a disease and needs to LEAVE NOW! No one wants u in office and u alone are destroying any chance liberals have to get in

Students ate just taking advanatage of canada and TFWs all the student funding just gets sent to ukraine

How else would Canada bring in money, if it doesn't accept too many international students? Canada has no economy, dependent on the US totally.

When you have indian international students asking for a help to Canadian government is just a big hustle, so India international students should be screen

Take out PR or Immigration from the student VISA process. Lets see how many will apply...

international students are usually the young and brightest, its a good problem to have

Yes. They did. A lot then like to work in restaurants to get free food. I am not kidding. But they are hardworking and bright students.

Students cap ??❤❤

International students = 90% Punjabi

Too many indians students compared to other nations and they all remain in Canada .

I have applied to universities in Toronto, Canada as an international student for September 2024. But I’ve also been accepted to a university in Victoria, British Columbia. I am now second-guessing my application because so many Canadians are disappointed with the state Toronto is in right now. Is it still worth it to go and pursue my education? (I’m planning to continue in my major until masters, then do research to help my home country but still live in Canada)

Just know, these foreign students aren’t moving in to create jobs. They’re competing for very valuable jobs with YOU. You can compete with your fellow citizens, but you cannot compete with the entire world.

master students didn't apply cap right,who ever came to study masters is any problem

I'm an immigrant and my immigrant friends and I were talking about exactly this just the other day. I'd like to add some context on why so few international students stay: they can't. Schools prey on this very fact. In international recruiting, these schools use the promise of thriving local industries and trot out graduates working locally as major draws to these expensive programs. Then once students are in Canada, many of these schools couldn't care less: they offer little or sometimes no housing support, no immigration advice (or in my case and many of my friends' cases: they give straight-up false immigration advice that can screw you over or even get you in trouble). There absolutely needs to be regulation and accountability for these predatory schools; I think a good starting point would be capping the number of visas they can apply for based on the number of housing units available (either on-campus or via local development subsidy and homestays). Tons of students come to Canada completely unprepared due to false promises made by these schools, and then get spit out into an egregiously inefficient and broken work visa system.\nMy immigrant friends and I are all highly skilled in our specific field. There are only a handful of people in the world (let alone in Canada) who can do what I do at the level I do it, so I would be incredibly difficult to replace if I left Canada. Despite that, and despite being Canadian-educated (Canadian resources invested in me that you'd want to keep in Canada), remaining in Canada has been a massive struggle for me and my friends. We individually spend hundreds and even thousands of dollars every year to apply for permits that have to be renewed annually, but take the government 6+ months to process. Because the government is so backed up, we have to apply for *extra* permits to bridge that gap (more money, and more work added to IRCC's already-long line of applications). I'm in limbo for the majority of the year where I can't switch employers, can't leave the country, etc. It's horrible. \nBut I have it better than most. Of the international students in my year, only I and one other student are still in Canada because the transition to work permits is so needlessly long and difficult. Even a graduate who does manage to get a work permit might have to sit unemployed for 6 months or more before that permit is active. How is a student supposed to survive without work for that long? In order for employers to even apply to sponsor a graduate, they often have to do a lengthy labor market impact assessment, and so these graduates are stuck in a holding pattern, and they're the lucky ones. Immigration is absolutely vital to Canada and I hate how quickly these stories turn to xenophobic rhetoric, but we have to make space in the conversation to take a look at how schools are exploiting students and policy loopholes, and why they're doing it, and address those problems. The current system isn't fair to anyone.

As a former international student (now citizen) I find it crazy that these diploma mills exist, I never understood how intl students can be so poor when I had to pay around $150k for my high school + university education. \n\nI'm shocked that the doors are so open that literally anybody can come in, that's not how it's supposed to work, going abroad to study is a privilege, Canada SHOULD be more selective about who comes through. \n\nAnd don't come at me about pulling the ladder up from behind me bullshit, I don't have a problem with intl students that go through the proper channels, but an intl student shouldn't have to work to survive, I worked because I needed experience on my resume ?. Yes, it's a privilege, AS IT SHOULD BE.

Canadian Embassy in India have issued too many student visas to the people under the criteria for the international students, that is the big problem

FYI that the major income of the Universities in Canada is from the high tuition fee of the foreign students. Will need to see how the government finds a way to compensate the Universities without cutting professors and staffs

An excellent video, eye opener, exposing the deception and exploiting international students.

Canada should put visa cap including immigration per country....follow the American policy. Its simply too many Indians that is changing the demographic balance by one ethnic group called Indian. And International student should not have full time work authorization, its directly hitting the location population employment opportunities.

If international students were able to vote Trudeau would apple for a job at the visa office to personally hand them out.

The majority of these international students are from countries like China and India that hate our western way of life.

Tell how many of these international students leave Canada after getting their degree and do not pay back student loans?

Rich indians with 500k CAD in the bank all going to foodbank to freeload got so bad they had to ban international students altogether

The housing crisis in canada is severe. No one can afford the cost of living here. International students and mass immigration unfortunately, have become part of the living crisis problem.

not only cap total number also limit max number of students per country per year.

I'm in favor of immigration because Canadians don't breed.\nCanadians don't breed because they can see the writing on the wall.\nSo we need new Canadians to breed, before they see the writing on the wall.\nI'm not in favor of Conservatives or Harper's changes to immigration rules.\nHe increased economic migrants from 50% to 70% and 20% of the housing supply are rental units.\n20% more = 20% less and you think the students can solve this, as usual.\nOff-loading boomers again.

Better to be letting in Students rather than any random criminal like they do in the U.S. from Mexico!

No, it's illegal immigrants become the problem. There's no government dislike the students who can actually bring economy growth.

They are not students, they falsify documents. They only come to work cheap and take our jobs!!

What we need to do is start a nationwide boycott of any canadian company that currently employs international students as more than 10% of its ENTIRE workforce.\n\nAnd a federal law that prohibits a company from hiring more than 10% of it's staff from anyone that doesn't currently posess a valid canadian passport. If a company is found in violation.. their business licence is automatically, immediately, and permanently revoked.... not just suspended.. but cancelled and the business shut down.

So full of shite the number of students applying have been in decline for the past couple of years

We have a shortage of doctors and nurses, among other specialties. This according to the Trudeau regime itself. So can somebody explain the logic of giving away medical and nursing school placements to foreign students who will take their degree and return to their country? \n\nIn my basic understanding, if I have a shortage of something, I dedicate my capacity to filling the shortage, not to selling my capacity for money. This seems the shallow, selfish action that liberals decry everyone else does. \n\nWhat am I missing?

I'm working in Purolator, the company reduced our work hours just accommodate this international students mostly from India. Some employee reduced to 4 hours from 8 hours work.

Why couldn’t the government easily tell if a student applying for a visa is having an admit from a legit university or not? Is it really that easy to scam the system?

I know a business manager who will only hire international students.

Are you talking about the shortages you created? And are you also talking about the shortage of money your stupid student immigration law will create? Cause that seems to be the point here! I would resign if I were you!!!

There are 1.44 million college and university students in Canada. About 550,000 of those are foreign that’s over 1/3. These students are paying 3 to 4 times the tuition of a Canadian. If 1/3 are foreign then universities are scamming both Canadians and the foreign students. There should be no more than 10-15% foreign undergraduate students. Canadian students are being rejected into university programs with an average of 95%. If someone gets 95 there should be no problem getting into a Canadian school. The system is broken for the tax payer who funds these universities.

We need stop immigration, migrants, intl students. \nIt needs to stay on pause until our own citizens are able to live, buy/ rent homes, afford foods etc. \n\nThe Liberal party ruined Canada.

Get lost Mr Trudeau we don't want you be pm of canada you fill up Canada badly with students criminals all kinds of different types

Actually, Canadians benefit from this. Setup more universities and lure in more intl students. Cheaper labour + higher property prices achieved.