Canada's open secret: International students are here to be exploited ⋆ The Breach
Canada's open secret: International students are here to be exploited ⋆ The Breach
Minister Marc Miller said the quiet part loud: Big business needs international students for cheap labour
When I was in college I had heard upwards of a third of the visas they were accepting and processing were at the very least questionable, but they accepted them anyways - a local student will pay maybe 5k a semester, while with international students it's upwards of 30k. It's a no-brainer that schools want internationals coming in.
The international students literally subsidize the local students.
This isn't necessarily a bad thing either, it's just exporting education (like you would export lumber or automotive parts)
What makes Canada special? Every country exploits international students. They exploit their citizens/subjects, too.
This is a Canadian media source reporting on Canada. Do you have anything to add other than “other people do it so we should too”?
Yeah. Canada should leave exploitation, misogyny, racism, and genocide against First Nations to the US. We do it better. /s
The students receive something of value (education they can't get at home) for either money directly if they have it, or cheaper labour to pay for that education and support themselves.
It's bad for Canadian workers because it suppresses wages, but it's not exploitative by default. Nobody is forcing them to come to Canada, and nobody is forcing them to work at these types of jobs. Almost all the companies employing them meet the minimum Canadian labour and pay standards.
Not that there aren't specific businesses being assholes and breaking the laws, but overall it's not exploitation.
The way they've underestimated living costs and increased the ability to work for students, all while ignoring diploma-mill schools points at a pattern of knowingly allowing exploitation