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YES ,too many international students.

Too bad he can’t say the truth. They disrupted the government in Egypt Jordan Lebanon and Syria in the recent past so nobody wants the risk…except maybe Democrats and brainwashed college students. ?

When we have people in tents on our streets we have no business bringing more in.\nSet hard limits on the percentage of foreign students.

Somebody who's inside a university here.\nThis segment is exactly correct. edit: in the first 2min, can't verify the rest except at 7:50.\nDomestic students get their tuition subsidised by universities and international students don't.\nIf the province cuts education funding the most logical thing to do is accept students you are not required to subsidize.\nSo, complain about funding cuts AND more more international students or complain about neither. Can't be both.\n\nOn the other hand, universities are places of leaning and exchange of ideas which cannot be done without international exchange of those ideas.

i work with these students and frankly the horror stories i hear about there housing is disturbing.

The whole country is dependent on international student labour because corporations think theyre too big to fail or downscale their corner of the economy.

Let the colleges be responsible for housing of students. In common sense, one dormitory with 10,000 students are not responsible action. Education is not a business, but a responsibility.

International students should be allowed to train and learn in Canada. That should not be a green light to immigration however. We need to go back to an organized immigration policy that accepts new citizens based on merit and who want to embrace Canadian culture, not erase it.

Need to stop give work permit to international students it helps froud and schame of business people. Those who came in this country for study bearing all expenses during their study period. According to Canadian census those countries people are less here in Canada bring more students then less students from more people on the there hand bring more students from rich country then south Asian country.

Exactly this, students are mostly victims in this equations.

Why are foreign students looking for work here ? They should come with the money they are going to need .

We need the unsuspecting overseas students to fund our colleges. We are doing it solely for the interest of local workers in all the colleges.

International students come, get in debt, then end up delivering food for uber eats

I think Canada gets too many Indian students. They are everywhere in Trudeauland. I am myself an immigrants but this is out of limits. Cansda should have am certain quota for each region of origin or Asia will take over ?

International students bring in billions of $ in the country but we don’t use this money to build more housing… the problem is not the students but the way we use the funds.

The infrastructure across Canada is not in place to handle a large influx of population. The health care and education systems and housing across the country are underfunded and the federal gov. which rakes in 86% of tax revenues is not giving the provinces their fair share and expects them to keep the infrastructure functioning effectively anyway. The universities are using international students to make up the deficit caused by the lack of funding and help form the federal government. In the process the Canadian students are being shafted because they pay less tuition even though their parents are still paying for most of the upkeep of the institutions of higher learning.

Of course. That’s how universities can afford to pay their executives millions while delivering an increasingly shoddy product. They don’t care that foreign students can’t find housing. Not their problem.

Lol its ironic how the foreign students paid so much just to be indoctrinated in the woke ways?

Blaming provinces was the best solution this government found for this issue. But they forget that ultimately it's them issuing the students visas, the PRs and the citizenships.

It is actually so hard to understand for me. I don’t wanna sound rude of self agrandizing but I came to Canada as a Latin American international student, fluent in English and French, with an engineering degree and a master’s in Finance and a lot of years of experience working in Fintech and My visa application was HARD!, I had to proof everything and save a lot of money and all that.\n\nI see however, other fellow international students and wonder: “How the hell did they got here?”. Little to no English, no funds, no degrees, studying useless programs in garage colleges.

All this does is create tensions among the immigrants and the natural born citizens. I know plenty of people who are becoming openly hostile to immigrants and international students.

Require the universities to provide housing included with tuition for international students. That would solve several problems (it would make it more difficult for the diploma mills, for starters).

Yes, way too many. God love 'em but we need to educate our own students.

I used to teach and coordinate programs for international nurse, this is spot on - and I have always wondered about Canadian students getting into programs - we need Canadian students who are talented and want to study but cannot afford it. There is so much i could unpack. In general, most of the students are lovely and hard-working, but the intent in most cases is to get a PR status - so most of them stay. Many also are disappointed with Canada - as they may come from a place where they were in a different social class. I know many of my students now are productive members of Canadian society working in their chosen fields. I am proud of them - as the move was not easy and they left their families behind. Considering that most of the world is a collectivist culture versus our individualist culture of the West, there is much to adjust to. Good piece.

Why not allowing other countries international students and only Indian?

This is not a question. It is a reality. There are too many foreign students.

College students can’t find jobs after graduation, and university is a vampire! Many parents spend their entire life saving or work hard to send their children to college

Would be nice if they would have mentioned the use of these student visa as a method of bringing in indentured servants... but hey at least they gave this a half assed look.

The answer is yes. Those students know that it is a ticket to stay. A foot in the door. They are a strain on government services, housing, food banks and most come here without proper resources that is one of the requirements for entry. Even if they pay more it shouldn't take spaces that Canadian should be entitled to. They take jobs that belong to Canadians, housings that belong to Canadians. In london ontario close to 12 thousand international students take up the affordable housing for people of london. This causes so much distress on the low income people try to find a place .Then greed of developers and landlords causes the rents to go up so much that those on fixed incomes can't afford there rents and rent evictions happen as landlord look to cash in . Time to stop this madness. Local government in london has done little to stop this issue either.

You only need to look at the fees international students pay vs local students as to why universities accept so many foreign students.

International students are stealing your kids opportunites for education recourses .\nThe schools make all the money and you subsidise them.

canada must is a must stop bringing Chines and Indian students or whatever,,,

It doesn’t help when Ford freezes tuition but allows more student visas. It’s a cash cow for these schools. These “students” end up working taking jobs from our own kids and keep wages suppressed. If universities have to close programs and administration take a big pay cut that could also offer some assistance and yeah put money back into education

Learn from the Queen, students need to stay and show why they need to behave in Canada.

Follow the British system, students need to stay for 10 years to get PR.

International students are not productive. They get on a certificate for one year, get work visa for one year and then get PR. Mickey Mouse colleges

Immigration is good but not at the levels we are at. Yes we are letting in too many International Students and Post secondary is taking advantage of this. BTW this is not just an issue for colleges. Universities are also taking advantage of this.

Canada is only accepting international students who can afford the rent that is triple the price it was 3 years ago.

Cap international students at the colleges that are diploma mills

Foreign students are an investment... it can pays off or not... \nAsylum seekers on the other hand... will always need government support...

Shut down the foreign student programs and this will contribute to reducing the housing pressure. Less foreign students will result in reduced rents and allow post secondary to be more feasible for domestic students. Investing in domestic students in essential for Canada's long term growth as opposed to this short sited tactic of training foreign students who leave. Also, encourage domestic students into the trades as we already have too many with university educations. We need trades people more now than ever... the housing shortage is a great example of this.

This is a problem and a cap is warranted. Unfortunately, a cap will likely also mean higher domestic tuition fees as the schools scramble to make up for the loss of as many higher tuition paying international students

Canada new tag line \n\nCanada is a country of internation students .....?????

Too many Indian students specifically. Unless Canada wants to turn into India 2.0, it should only accept researchers from India and limit 99% rest.

Where were these colleges getting all this money from before the influx of international students?

Have a look at what our government is doing. When the academic performance of our own students are bad, instead of investing in education which is the correct approach, we just handing out more study permits to international students and leave average Canadians with a housing crisis

My question is: why is it that 98.5% of international students come from one country? I remember when I was in high school working at McDonald’s etc now Walmart, Petro Canada, Tim Horton’s, McDonald’s are only hiring international students and only from one country too ?

International students are paying to keep our universities open and running?

I agree with what was stated in this.\n\nI would be interested in hearing how Canadian students compare to international students grade wise.\n\n There's a disturbing trend of expectations on Canadian standards being lowered and lowered, teachers being unable to fail students, and covid made it so much worse. Reading levels for middle school have been adjusted to be that of fifth grade or lower.\n\n There are so many students GRADUATING from high school who can't read at a sixth grade level. They haven't seen the inside of a classroom except to socialize with friends. \n\n Why would universities want these students? So their failure or drop out rate can go through the roof? So they can show employment after graduation being low as these students have little to no motivation to work?

NO ONE is talking about how It’s almost impossible for a Canadian student to get accepted into a university or college because they don’t pay the inflated international tuition fees.