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Those ultra high levels of international students is an affront to all Canadians. 20 years of their parents paying taxes to support our universities only to find that their own kids can't get in. It is also EXTREMELY elitist. These international students are universally high income and hence their basic educations were done at private schools and home tutoring in their home countries and you can bet they didn't have to have P/T jobs to save money for university.

It's also worth noting that the highest levels are in BC and Ontario which not coincidentally happen to have the most extreme housing prices and lack of affordable rentals. This growth in just 4 years of a near doubling of international students means Canada has to find places for them to live which don't exist.