What foreign students attending private career colleges actually appear to be paying for is the right to enter Canada, and to work, mostly at low-skill, low-wage jobs
. The jump has been particularly sharp in recent years. At the end of 2022, there were nearly half a million more visa students than in 2015.
There are, of course, excellent university and college programs attracting the best and the brightest to this country. That’s what tying higher education to immigration is supposed to be doing: boosting economic vitality by pulling in, say, the world’s best engineering or computer science students, and giving them opportunities to become Canadians after graduation.
Consider what’s happening at Ontario’s 24 public colleges. Between 2012 and 2020, their foreign enrolment grew by 342 per cent. There’s been more growth in the last three years. But a large part of that growth comes from public colleges selling their name, and their publicly-bestowed credentials, to private operators.
But much of the educational visa stream is no longer about that. And graded on the curve, Lambton is far from the bottom of the class.designated learning institutions.
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