Nova Scotia reported the biggest drop, with 2,091 fewer foreign students
The president of the Association of Atlantic Universities says the federal immigration department’s cap has had a 'devastating effect' on many of the 16 universities across the region.International enrolment in Atlantic Canada has fallen by nearly 3,000 students this academic year, a drop one university group says is the “devastating effect” of the federal government’s policies to reduce the presence of temporary immigrants.
The decline is being blamed on the federal government’s cap on international student enrolment, announced in January, which marked a 35 per cent decrease from last year’s numbers. Last month, Ottawa announced a further 10 per cent cut for 2025. The government acted after the number of foreign student visas had tripled in a decade to more than one million.
The federal government’s policies, he said, “in many ways undermine their own Atlantic immigration program of which international students are an important stream of new citizens for the region.”
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