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Canada must attract foreign students to fuel innovation, drive economy: report

Canada should double the number of international students choosing to study here by 2020, a new report commissioned by the federal government says.

The task force responsible for the report, headed up by Western University president Amit Chakma, wants Ottawa to boost the number of international students from approximately 239,130 to 450,000 without taking away coveted university seats from its own Canadian students.

The 122-page report titled International Education, a Key Driver of Canada’s Future Prosperity, released Tuesday, says Canada must invest in attracting students to fuel innovation and drive economic prosperity.

The task force also recommended creating 50,000 opportunities per year for Canadian students to go abroad for study and cultural exchanges

With billions of dollars at stake, the Conservatives put aside $10-million in their 2011 budget for the advisory panel on attracting the top young talent globally, and to close the gap between Canada and countries such as the U.S., Britain and Australia which have had several years of a head start.

International students inject billions of dollars into the domestic economy of these countries. In Canada alone, international students spent $8-billion in 2010, upwards from $6.5-billion in 2008.
The total amount spent by international students in Canada is greater than the country's export of unwrought aluminum at $6-billion and of helicopters, airplanes and spacecraft at $6.9-billion.
Over 50 per cent of international students in Canada are from Asian countries, with China, India and South Korea leading the way.

But even aside from the immediate cash infusion into Canada's domestic economy, international students are often seen as prime candidates as future immigrants for a booming labour market in the west, who need to establish Canadian credentials and work experience for successful application. Even if these students return home, they will have built ties to Canada that may develop into business opportunities and diplomatic relations, and generally raise Canada's profile abroad.

Take Brazil, for example: Over the next four years, the Brazilian government will spend $2-billion to help send more than 100,000 of its best students to universities globally to help forge future economic ties. Canada will receive about 12,000 of them; the second-highest total of all recipient countries.

The competition was already fierce for international students, but it's heating up.

Countries such as India and China - Canada's top supply of international students - are trying to reverse the brain drain. In 2011, India increased higher education spending by 30 per cent in the hopes of keeping their brightest young minds from leaving, but also boosting recruitment from the very countries that have been luring away those students.

The Chinese government has set a goal of enrolling 500,000 international students in their universities by 2020, twice the number it now hosts and in excess of those it sends abroad.
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I guess our own people aren't good enough.

Comments?

[Luke]

It sounds like a talking point to push gov'ts toward increasing the number of foreign students. I'm not savvy on how the number foreign students you bring in to your Universities drives growth.

[Joahob]

The native white population of Canada is in a precipitous and irreversible decline, with birthrates roughly on par with those of European countries. Immigration and the importation of foreign students associated with it is necessary for the continued growth of the economy. Immigrants to Canada and foreign students are primarily Asians, and this will bode well for Canada as Asians are generally quite receptive to Christian values, the same values which the native white population has rejected to its own detriment.

By comparison, US demographics are primarily driven by Hispanic immigrants, who are largley uneducated and represent a drain on the social welfare state. Although they are already largely Catholic, statistics have suggested that by the third generation most of them abandon the Christian values that will be necessary to ensure the future prosperity of the west. The jury is still out on whether this wave of Hispanic catholic immigration can rejuvenate the United States.

Likewise with Canada, it remains to be seen if immigration will be enough to revitalize a rapidly deteriorating and decadent West. One out of five Canadian women will not have children in their lifetime, and roughly half of all couples in Canada do not have children. All of this is because of the wholesale rejection of Christianity and the embrace of secular values like recreational living and the general pursuit of self-centered lifestyles at the expense of raising children. If immigrants simply conform to this cultural mode, then it is not cear that North America will rise above this cultural degeneration. The only saving grace is that the people who promote this culture, leftist seculars, have maybe one child per couple or none at all, which means that their descendants will represent an ever increasingly smaller portion of the population, and thus, it may be hoped, that this demographic decline will run commensurate with a decline in the values that this apostate generation promotes.