Record numbers of international students coming to Canada is making the already inflated cost of housing worse, said Steve Pomeroy, a policy research consultant and senior research fellow at Carleton University’s centre for urban research.
The biggest strain on Canada’s housing market, he said, isn’t only the rising rate of permanent residents, with more than 400,000 permanent residents in 2022, and the Liberal government determined to hit 500,000 a year in the next couple of years. Those coming here seeking temporary residence, either temporary foreign workers or international students, are fuelling rental price increases.
Related … ‘Something doesn’t seem right here’: International students’ revoked college admissions cast spotlight on Ontario’s public-private partnerships
This week’s news that admission offers to 504 international students have been revoked by an Ontario college is likely to cast a spotlight once more onto partnerships between Ontario’s public and private colleges.
The students in question had been admitted months ago by Timmins-based Northern College to study at Pures College, its private partner in Toronto.
The revoking of the admission offers comes before a new rule takes effect next month that will cap international student enrolment under such partnerships.
