It's cold in Canada
Mar 24, 2024
When Gobindbir Singh describes the stress international students are under, he remembers a young man who called in tears. Unable to pay his tuition for the upcoming semester, the student said his parents were selling their home in India and it still wasn't enough.
That's the condition of the study visa: sufficient financial resources to pay for tuition, rent, food, and transportation.
Post-secondary institutions and policymakers are facing significant scrutiny over the increase as colleges and universities increasingly use international student tuition to supplement inadequate government funding. Meanwhile, more stories are surfacing of international students living in substandard housing and relying on food banks.
I've seen clips of two Indian You Tube luminaries in Ontario who gladly stole from food banks while showing off their new cars a few videos later! They are not victims. They're fraudsters. If they can't afford the tuition and basic living costs, then they shouldn't be in Canada.
Singh, president of the Gurdwara Dukh Nivaran, said he believes one of the reasons students start using drugs is to deal with the mental distress of living in a place where they cannot afford housing or food, and to cope with loneliness. [...]
Singh said he would not recommend that parents in India send their aspiring students to Canada.
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