Quebec schools call for exemption from foreign student cap, but minister unmoved

Quebec universities and nationalist colleges accidental they should beryllium exempt from the government’s program to trim the fig of planetary students successful the province, but the migration curate says that’s unlikely.

The schools accidental a measure tabled past period would wounded their quality to pull apical endowment from astir the world.

But Immigration Minister Jean-François Roberge says it’s “not reasonable” to deliberation the authorities could chopped the fig of overseas students successful Quebec without including universities and nationalist colleges.

The measure would springiness the authorities caller powerfulness to headdress overseas pupil enrolment astatine Quebec schools based connected region, instauration and programme of study.

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Roberge has said the measure is indispensable to forestall schools from selling Canadian citizenship, but the universities and nationalist colleges accidental they aren’t the problem.

There are presently astir 124,000 overseas students successful Quebec, which Roberge says is simply a 140 per cent summation successful the past decade.