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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Two things recent elections in the U.S. and elsewhere have taught us about voters: They hate inflation, and they hate unregulated and fraudulent immigration.
Miller has said he’s “kicking himself” over trusting the provinces and institutions to regulate themselves. And he has a point. Provincial governments grappling with ever-increasing health care costs find post-secondary education an easier target for cuts. Those institutions make up for funding shortfalls by turning to the cash cow of international students. Which in turn puts pressure on housing, which is largely a municipal matter.
The feds blame the provinces. The provinces blame the schools. The schools blame municipalities. One hand doesn’t know what the other is doing until we have a crisis that all the stakeholders blame on someone else. It’s a microcosm of the dysfunctional relationships between federal, provincial, and municipal governments in this country.
The Liberals are desperately back-pedalling, but it’s too little too late. In the eyes of the public, the feds own immigration and any attendant problems that come with it. The Liberal brand is going to be associated with bewildering negligence for a long time, and the Cons under Poilievre have wind in theirs sails that they probably don’t deserve.
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I don’t think foreign students at real universities is the issue that is driving the student immigration problem. It’s a terrible way to fund a university and limits access to Canadians but it’s a separate issue from the diploma mills and fake schools.