{"id":126282,"date":"2023-09-01T10:51:46","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T14:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/?p=126282"},"modified":"2023-09-01T10:51:46","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T14:51:46","slug":"canada-urged-to-put-a-cap-on-the-number-of-student-visas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/canada-urged-to-put-a-cap-on-the-number-of-student-visas\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada Urged To Put a Cap on the Number of Student Visas\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

Canada needs to put a cap on the number of international students<\/span><\/a> being admitted to the country per year, says columnist Tony Keller in The Globe and Mail.<\/p>\n

This is in response to what he describes to be a recent deterioration of the international student immigration system, under which candidates are coming to Canada to merely work while enrolled, gain permanent residence, and eventually even citizenship.<\/p>\n

Keller furthers his view by writing that although the overarching goal of Canada international student immigration is to benefit and enrich Canada through scarce skills and experience, the student visa system is no longer even aiming at achieving that.<\/p>\n

The Globe and Mail piece traces this issue back to the advent of the Trudeau government, which \u201cbroke\u201d the immigration system by allowing a \u201cmassive shadow immigration stream\u201d of temporary foreign workers \u2013 many of who come through the student visa.<\/p>\n

Ottawa was not alone in making this change happen, however, and essentially colluded with private industry, educational institutions, and provincial governments to award them their respective interests of minimum-wage labour, international tuition, and lower education budgets.<\/p>\n

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Nevertheless, Keller believes Marc Miller to be recognizing the shortcoming of the system.<\/p>\n

Referencing the Immigration Minister\u2019s interview with CBC\u2019s Radio\u2019s The House last Saturday, he points out that Miller sees international student recruitment as an \u201cecosystem\u201d that is \u201cvery lucrative\u201d but has brought \u201csome perverse effects: some fraud in the system, some people taking advantage of what is seen as a backdoor entry into Canada.\u201d<\/p>\n

The larger issue at hand, according to Miller, is the \u201cintegrity of the system.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bringing forth the example of Ontario, the column highlights how the number of foreign students rose from 46,000 to 412,000 between 2000 and 2022, with the \u201crise under the Doug Ford government\u201d having been \u201cespecially vertiginous\u201d and \u201cespecially pronounced in the college sector.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 2016, less than 35,000 new student visas were issued for admission to Ontario colleges, while the number in 2022 was more than 143,000.<\/p>\n

Many of these students attend institutions that are designed for money-minting purposes rather than providing a fruitful education, with some being run by private entrepreneurs and others by entrepreneurial arrangements between public colleges and private operators; while the public institutions provide the credentials, the latter are responsible for \u201cjust about everything else.\u201d<\/p>\n

This, however, leads to a net loss for Canada. While the country is essentially winning every time a person graduates with a highly skilled degree and works in a field where there is a shortage of Canadian workers, it is getting crowded by immigrants working in low-skilled positions.<\/p>\n

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