Canada is looking to crack down on unscrupulous schools that are cashing in on the big bucks of international student tuition fees without putting any thought into where those students are going to live, Housing Minister Sean Fraser said Monday.
He was speaking in Charlottetown just before the first session of a three-day Liberal cabinet retreat where the country's worsening housing crisis is expected to dominate discussions.
In 2014, Canada set a target to increase international student enrolment from about 240,000 to more than 450,000 by 2022. Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada reported that there were more than 807,000 international study permit holders in Canada in December. Poilievre would not say whether he would lower immigration levels, and instead said that Ottawa needs to crack down on slow-moving municipal bureaucracies that make it harder to start construction projects.
That includes eliminating federal sales taxes on the construction of housing units built specifically to be rentals, and to play a leadership role in creating a new national housing accord with other levels of government, for-profit builders and not-for-profit housing agencies. Emergency Preparedness Minister Harjit Sajjan, who represents a Vancouver riding in the House of Commons, attended the meeting and the retreat remotely. He is staying in B.C. to help with the response to the fires.
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