The key takeaways: > There were more than 1 million international students here in 2023, up 245 percent from a decade earlier and 60 percent since 2019. Canada

The key takeaways: > There were more than 1 million international students here in 2023, up 245 percent from a decade earlier and 60 percent since 2019. Canada, a country of 40 million, had roughly the same number of international students last year as the United States, a country more than eight times its size. > Immigration Minister Marc Miller said last month that Canada would for the first time set targets for the number of temporary immigrants. He had already announced a temporary cap on undergraduate study permits and increased the amount of money that international students must have to study here. The ministry also barred students in programs run by public-private college partnerships from applying for postgraduate work permits. Some, Miller said, run “the diploma equivalent of puppy mills,” offering poor curriculums in exchange for the prospect of permanent status. This isn't just a housing or infrastructure problem, productivity is also tanking. These strip mall college degrees are effectively worthless, and these programs function as a backdoor mechanism to suppress the cost of low-skill labor. Why invest in automation or equipment when you can just hire more cheap foreign workers?