• CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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    7 months ago

    Nice data!

    It’s shitty because that money is being sucked out of newcomers’ home countries to fund Canadian institutions.

    Plus, sometimes it’s just for the prestige. I know some sign up for agricultural programs, but they’re from tropical countries so almost nothing applies when they go back. On the bright side, these are the rich elites where they come from, so the really needy ones aren’t directly effected.

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      7 months ago

      I don’t know if that’s true for everyone:

      Vasudev’s father, Jitesh Vasudev, told CBC News he and his wife spent their entire life savings and mortgaged their house to take out a loan of $50,000, just to afford the first year of his son’s education in Canada, before he was shot and killed.