Replacing Canadian university students with foreign students who can pay the higher tuition - and then return from where they came from - what's not to like?
Quebec maintains the health of the french language by requiring immigrants to attend francophone schools, beginning in kindergarten. There were exemptions for Canadians who moved to Quebec from other provinces, or had a parent who was an immigrant. (The latter made me eligible to attend the anglophone school system in the 1970s).
I could see Canadian parents being upset if those exemptions have since been ended.
"and then return from where they came from - what's not to like"
Not a single student will return. Student visas are treated as permanent immigration visa by all those who obtain it. Once you get in, its impossibel to send back.
A student who is being sponsored by their government is expected to return home and contribute to their society. Self-sponsored students are of course free to pursue their own path.
Student visas can be obtained for community college programs. Here we're talking university level courses at a prestigious institution like McGill. This tends to be the preserve of foreign elites sending their heirs to get educated. Or top students who earned the right to a scholarship.
As an Irish American, I can appreciate defending Anglophonia as the universal language of anywhere and nowhere cosmopolitans, but it appears the Quebecois prefer roots.
Replacing Canadian university students with foreign students who can pay the higher tuition - and then return from where they came from - what's not to like?
Quebec maintains the health of the french language by requiring immigrants to attend francophone schools, beginning in kindergarten. There were exemptions for Canadians who moved to Quebec from other provinces, or had a parent who was an immigrant. (The latter made me eligible to attend the anglophone school system in the 1970s).
I could see Canadian parents being upset if those exemptions have since been ended.
"and then return from where they came from - what's not to like"
Not a single student will return. Student visas are treated as permanent immigration visa by all those who obtain it. Once you get in, its impossibel to send back.
A student who is being sponsored by their government is expected to return home and contribute to their society. Self-sponsored students are of course free to pursue their own path.
Student visas can be obtained for community college programs. Here we're talking university level courses at a prestigious institution like McGill. This tends to be the preserve of foreign elites sending their heirs to get educated. Or top students who earned the right to a scholarship.
Maybe, but proportion of self sponsored to government sponsored is probably 99 -1 these days.
As an Irish American, I can appreciate defending Anglophonia as the universal language of anywhere and nowhere cosmopolitans, but it appears the Quebecois prefer roots.
Reminds me of Israel.