‘I feel terrible’: Wilfrid Laurier international student at centre of storm over post about how to get free food
‘I feel terrible’: Wilfrid Laurier international student at centre of storm over post about how to get free food
In a video that's he's since deleted, Mehul Prajapati shared how he made use of a program at his school that provides food insecure students with free groceries weekly.
In a video that's he's since deleted, Mehul Prajapati shared how he made use of a program at his school that provides food insecure students with free groceries weekly.
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I see both sides on this, we really shouldn't be accepting international students (on international student visas) who need food support in the first place.
Yes that means some people will not be able to come here. There's still more applicants than available slots, so no real problem there.
The whole point of exporting education is to make money for Canada though, just like any other export, which doesn't work if they aren't able to pay.
Now if someone is here on a refugee or PR visa, I don't have a problem helping them with food and cost of living.
Also, threatening someone is never the right way to go about discussing policy.
The whole point of exporting education is to make money for Canada
Hey look! I found it! It's the whole motherfucking problem!
This is treating both education and people as commodities. Maybe we shouldn't be thinking this way.
At all.
Ever.
Without economic growth and technology advancement, our quality of life would be mud huts and berries.
I agree that we don't have the balance quite right but overall the system has worked.
It used to work, and has worked, off and on, when we get the balance right. You're quite correct about that.
The problem is that the people who benefit from an unbalanced system aren't the people who are hurt by it. That means the system isn't self-balancing until it's so out of whack that the rich are getting whacked.
Its somewhat to make money. But it also forgoes the cost of caring for and raising children. Canada likes it when people arrive with the cost of the first 18-30 years of life already paid by another community. Then we benefit from and exploit that. Often wasting advanced education as people enter the job market vastly overqualified for where they end up. (A situation which is often misrepresented to people considering a move here.)
As it stands, running universities and many other industries would be impossible without doing this massive brain drain on other communities. Because it would entail having a less shitty public education and social support system.
I am happy for immigrants to come here. I just find the parasitism of Canadian public policy really gross.
It is pretty odd that people who don’t have family support nearby aren’t required to have a food plan but many universities require it for first year students/people living on residences