International students in Canada face discrimination, exploitation | Front Burner
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- čas přidán 28. 08. 2023
- As politicians in Ottawa debate whether to put limits on the number of international students coming to Canada, we focus on the experiences and challenges students themselves face while studying here.
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Time to go back home kids
All schools should be mandated to secure accommodation for every single student they enroll! Domestic students have equally hard time finding accommodation near colleges and universities.
No one talks about Domestic students, all focus is on the "suffering" of internationals. Hope Gen Z wakes up and never votes left again!
Oh the poor immigrants. Let bring in more of them.
I blame the Canadian immigration services. When anyone, especially a student, applies to come to Canada, that applicant must show they can support themselves while in Canada. The Immigration officer determines if it will be enough. Telling a person that working a Tim Hortons will allow you to find a home and pay for groceries in Canada is a flat out lie. Immigrants sometimes lose everything from their homelands to come to Canada, burn through their life savings even while working hard, and end up leaving WORSE than coming to Canada.
Please don't come to Canada
There was a Chinese student that was a spy from China he came as a student to spy on a company. He came as a student and what ever information he was getting he sent that information back to 🇨🇳 this happened just remember. Who knows how many people that are coming into Canada are saying who they say they are .
Blame the entire structure and systems from Canada to India. The reality is that immigration must end until the damage that has already occurred has been addressed and reversed. If we can't take care of Canadians then how will we take care of these immigrants?
Apparently the 10,000 estimate of the cost of living was set qarter century ago. Since that time housing costs more than tripled.
They DO NOT face discrimination. Rules change & being an international student DOES NOT give them a right to stay in Canada. They need to go back home after graduation.
They get paid less than minimum wage and long hours of work with no overtime pay and no break.
All international students should be 100% online only. That way they wont take away housing from Canadian families and the universities can keep making their money off these students. So good for all parties. And at the end of the 4 years- these students can apply for work permit- as usual. Which is what they really want after all.
You are absolutely right.
actually a great idea
Clearly never been to school 😂😂😂
So, there treated like everyone else and expect Canada to give special treatment.
1. Canadians pay taxes to help keep tuition down, we do not do this for foreign students,
2. They are free to think for themselves and look fo accommodation before they travel.
3. Renters want long term renters, and will take long term before short term.
4. If they can't afford it then they should do what every Canadians do, they don't go.
I agree with two out of your four statements.
1. Foreign students pay nearly five times the amount Canadians pay due to that. In addition, they also pay taxes, immigration fees, and health insurance.
2. I agree; I did the same when I came to Montreal.
3. Why do you think they are not long-term renters? I believe most of them are.
4. I agree. It is heartbreaking to see your dreams being far too impossible to accomplish but truth must be told. Those who come without considering the consequences should not complain about the lack of support.
Reality served Cold !
@@oz6123 Tired of the idea these students were "scammed", they are scamming us, are you too blind to see?
bullshit, landlords love the endless STR market.
@@morimoko
Because the government made LTR unviable.
Educational Institutions profiting from international students must be fully responsible not only for their education, but also for their housing and other needs.
At least find people who would at least be willing to billit students.
Simply, population growth has been too high for a infrastructure building abilities. It's become a nightmare for Canadians, and it's a nightmare for all the people we are trying to welcome to Canada as well, like these students. Our population growth ambitions need to be slowed until everyone can get dignity with housing. What we are doing with international students is like reverse colonialism. The international student program needs to come with a guarantee that 90+% of students will be provided housing by the schools.
Stop wasting your money 💰 on educational institutes when you can learn everything online, on your own, and for free.
Canada is so hypocritical…
Higher institutions educations should only deliver acceptance letters to students they will provide housing for, on campus. If colleges/ universities don’t have the space on campus, then they shouldn’t be handing out acceptance letters. I really feel for international students. They are not told the whole situation by their “agents” until they get here and once here it is too late.
they are not being told the whole situation by Canada either, Immigration can easily publish the true % of students that are awarded PR. After the huge loans they take they need to know how risky is to be back home in debt. Canada won't publish the data because of course a big revolving door is more profitable than giving real chances to a selected few.
It's kinda interesting in the most disturbing way. Here in Australia widespread exploitation of international students is so common, that reports of this no longer raises as much as an eyebrow. Shocking
UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES SHOULD BUILD ENOUGH APARTMENTS TO HOUSE STUDENTS. Charging students a lot of money and not giving a place to stay in WRONG, unfair and immoral
These students are not here in Canada to study but work
If you mandate that they'll just charge more. The reason housing is so much is because of mass immigration. Trudeau destroyed this country.
The situation will not be fixed as long as international students and/or their families are willing to do anything for them to come and study in Canada, no doubt partially fuelled by promises by agents back home of “easy” Canadian life
Ambivalent about the whole story....because it is often Members of their Own Community that is Exploiting students with Bogus Education & Training Promises / Certification, Bogus Immigration Supports, and Substandard Housing that violates many Fire Code & Public Health Bylaws. There is a big Underground problem (not being interrogated) in Scarborough of Illegally Subdivided Bungalow Homes that are often OWNED by Immigrant Groups. These homes are Subdivided into Smaller and ILLEGAL units that are rented out Students. So if these communities are willing to take advantage of their own people and if students, in turn, accept these conditions, then who is to be held accountable...?
As for complaints and charges of "racism"...sorry, but these groups Import a lot of their Caste System Prejudices and Sexist Patriarchal Oppressions with them ! we need to have more Honest Inquiry here about an Underground problem that few Outside groups do not have privy and full understanding.
Rightly said.. the discrimination happens within the communities .
LOL. Trust me, discrimination and exploitation in and around academia is in NO WAY limited to international students.
The ones profiting from international students are universities (UBC, UofT etc.). Instead of putting a hard cap on international student numbers, every university should be made to contribute towards housing and food for every international student they're bringing in. All of the pain regarding finding housing etc. felt by BOTH international students and the local communities they're in should be somehow channelled to universities so they feel the burn.
Agree
If colleges let foreign students come here, they need to provide them with campus rooms to stay. This is their business. If college can’t provide their students with room, don’t get them here. You are not only put your students in complicated situations, you also create unnecessary pressure on rental market. You just make rent prices goes up. We have enough local people can’t afford the rent.
This is common sense, not discrimination. Canada has had a severe housing shortage for way too long, including under the Conservatives/Harper.
It happens in capitalism countries. Market always builds less than demand.
International students get mot of the time scammed from landlords when they rent a room. For example, back in 2013 I came to Canada as international student, I have rented a room at 650CAD/month, but the Jamaican landlord entered to my room when I was at the College and also stole my food that was in the fridge. I had to move to an Indian family were extremely dirty. They leave diaper open in the bathroom . I had to breathe from my mouth until I had to move to a white lady and I was a true victim. She shouted at me every time treating as if I were her cleaner. She is super duper dirty. She showers only once a week. Thanks Lord I worked and looked for a place for myself and since then I never believed in sharing.
agreed, they get scammed the most because they dont know their rules and rights. my first Chinese landlord made rules that were ilegal and I had no idea. happy I moved out of there within 6 months.
So dont study abroad if you can’t afford it.
Not when you have a green N card and driving a G wagon or Merc S class
What I heard about institutions scamming international students into coming here without telling them about the housing crisis is awful, but the housing crisis is not discrimination. When I first moved to Toronto to work a job that started at $45,000/year in 2015, I had to sleep in my car for a month because it was impossible to find a landlord who wanted to give me the time of day despite having a good record and proof of income.
The situation only got worse and seeing people have to go through what these students are going through makes me sick.
International students are supposed to be financially self sufficient. If you can't afford to be here we need to send them home.
He should just go home then. Its been showing on the news for months that we have been having a housing crisis yet they chose to come. And like alot of people are saying if they cant afford to live here they shouldnt have been allowed here in the first place.
Consulting companies 🤡🤡
Good interview. International students have the potential to bring a ton of economic benefit to a country, but it is important to ensure they are not subject to scams and abuse. I appreciate the nuances that this interview touched on.
I don’t know how they do it what is 3k for my student payment for my course it 15,000k for them same course
It’s greed and ignorance by both students and education institutions. Government is getting their cut, institutes get their name/revenues/branding/ and students being greedy in getting PR, as if! I mean all international students need to be a lil savvy in reviewing unis/colleges… they got internet in India…look up the place your interested in. CBU, heck Sydney NS, come on you don’t need to be bright to know how bad it is there since the past 5 years.
Be smart, go to a legit school, being scammed means your intelligence is lacking! These so called students become professional and want to become PR in Canada, are we sure we need such ppl?
so they are pushing wages down too you say? I would care about them if I wasn't on a housing waiting list for 9 years and im born here
Exactly, I'm on the waiting list too and I might be homeless soon and I have 2 small children. There's so many articles about them becoming homeless what about us Canadians. It's time for our government to stop helping people from other countries and start helping our people. Trudeaus too fixed on helping other people BC he waslns to stay in parliament.
why did he have to go from Georgian to George Brown college? That Georgian's program is pretty good and highly sought after
The government should mandate that colleges accept as many students as they have housing for. Otherwise colleges won't care.
Don’t they have campus for students if there taking in so many students ?? I’m in states & my son attends university & his housing & any thing that has to take place to attend must be tc off months in advance ..
Everything in Canada is now about enriching everything. Immigrant money is feeding the economy but it's stretched housing, social programs, and infrastructure at the loss of seniors, disabled, and poverty Canadians. They have no sympathy here.
It's a different scenario in Canada; some provinces have caps on tuition fees and huge budget shortfalls due to government cutbacks. Institutions make up the difference by accepting international students where there is no cap on tuition fees. Government cutbacks have also resulted in Institutions not investing in student housing.
@@reneeladouceur you're telling me a $1.7 billion industry can't afford to reinvest in student housing?
@@abandonedaccount747 Yes, that's exactly what I am saying for the reasons I listed above. Many institutions have operating costs that exceed the revenue they are able to generate. Québec institutions especially due to very low tuition fees. The last premier that tried to increase them ruined his political career.
they dont have any legal obligation to do so..... they haven't build anything new but admin offices for themselves. the very few student housing the build in the 70's has large waitlists and is not cheap because is priced at market rates.
Who cares .😅
Always there is racism, but all Canadians are in struggle with rent nowadays, so nothing out of normal. In fact, many landlords prefer immigrants specially international students to locals. It is possible that the landlord receives huge requests at this time of the year, and does not respond to most of them.
Very good content. Strangely, current federal and provincial governments are all trying very hard, regardless their side, to pit people against people. The main source of all the problems we are living in daily now such as housing crisis, inflation, profiteering, etc are basically nothing to see with the immigration where all the Canadians originate from except indigenous people. Housing crisis comes from, first, the crazy speculation boom boosted by easy money, second, massive cancelation of non market housing plans by many of conservative provincial governments, so the pricing index for the private market has disappeared for good, third, liberal federal government shares basically same vision with Conservative Party concerning the primacy of private development and private rental market over the public housing market, forth, unreasonable political desire of doing soft landing despite a huge amount of bubbles instead of deleveraging it for our future generation. There is still plenty of other causes we can identify, thus, remedy. So blaming immigration or foreign students won’t solve anything.
Good point but continuing to have immagration and international students in the country doesn't help the housing situation . We shouldn't short change the existing population for prospects.
@@AlbertaleoAlbertalei agreed. Immigration flow needs to be regulated and slowed down since federal and provincial governments want to use immigration to sustain bubbles and to divide/divert public opinion.
To reduce predatory behaviour in Canada and the shame associated with it, we should ENSURE safe housing, clean water, healthy food, quality education, and full health care for everyone, while planning future development to be in harmony with the Earth and with each other. There's a lot to that but it is possible with our current technology.
@@oz6123 I've been to those places and they weren't utopias. I think the term 'utopian' gets over used by deadened people that are used to corruption and things not working - anything other than the status quo seems to be communism, some fictitious dreamworld, or an evil ploy. It is possible to meet everyone's basic needs without raising taxes or trying to control people. We could have a simulator created so tons of children and adults could apply their own unique solutions to these problems, and the most ethical and logical could be voted on and used in the real world.
they all know what they are getting into,so why blame CANADA.
Very bad indeed.
These people took the citizens jobs
I am an international student, I agree that Canada should solve the housing crisis, this has been a systematic problem for some time. I agree on the discrimination, in terms that Canada brings thousands of students each year, and makes billions off us, but does nothing to help students get through their studies, they can't take out loans (which would be fully paid back, i's not 'giving away money'), they can't rent apartments easily (I am lucky because my siblings are born Canadians so they cosign my leases), it's very hard to find a job that is not minimum wage, etc. This issue is not about Canadians first, as I stated before, this country is constructed over immigrants, international students bring billions of dollars in, moreover everybody should have the right to study and be able to live anywhere they want, and it is a a lack of democracy to bring people here and leave them hopeless, helpless and homeless. Canada has a type of democracy that has very little to do with actually living democratically.
This is not your fault, but the governments but I disagree with that statement everyone has the RIGHT to study where they want.
Absolutely not, not to the detriment of Canadians and immigrants achieving affordable housing in a market with a limited supply. Canada is taking in 900,000 international students, that number is more then last year.
We need a cap on the amount of international students and on immigration numbers till we can resolve the housing crisis in this country. The govt does not need to help with your studies either that is encumbant on the individual who enters post secondary institution, same goes for domestic students.
Adding high numbers of international students already on top of an overburdened housing market is adding fuel to the fire.
In the end everyone suffers.
Disagree. Canadian homelessness being one the rise due to the huge wave of immigrants and international students looking for pr… Canadians should most definitely be helped first. It’s not discrimination to bring in people to make money off them and it’s not the governments responsibility to help said students. If they decide to pay the money to go to another country to study, they should be adults and figure out their own housing, not rely on foreign government. People don’t have a problem with immigrants, it’s the amount the government is pushing. There’s too many people. Why do you think there’s a housing crisis on the rise??? Doesn’t matter if an area was built by immigrants and Canadians, that’s irrelevant. It’s a part of history, it’s not a golden ticket to be squeezed in or just because “they should have the right to study and to live anywhere”. The government needs to regulate the foreigns or we all suffer. They should help Canadians first because the government created this mess, Canadians had no choice and no help, the immigrants and internationals CHOSE to move to Canada.
@@Anne525 Great, we can agree to do
Disagree. But homelessness is not a result of housing in many cases.
You forget that Canadians who pay taxes, are have the right to be put FIRST, are being put second and forgotten about. Canadians are suffering through the same problem, international princess, and we paid taxes and gave away our lives for this place. Immigrants and international students are not to be talked about, it is Canadians' that need to be put first.
@@johncam8420 Thank you John for telling me what I forget. Everyone pays taxes, when you buy bread, you pay taxes Cinderella. Canadians are always put first Snow White, please read my post again Jazmin. And of course you are writing from beyond the grave Bellla, as you gave your life for this country Elizabeth. I suggest Maria, that you take advantage of your 'tax paying' benefits Laura and get educated or at least informed that Canadians voted for other Canadians that made and make these policies, you are attacking the wrong people honey boo boo. And have yourself a happy day.
Limiting them would be a terrible idea.
its a terrible idea that there is no cap... the "business" of bringing students has grown without rules for years. once the McSchools and the government take their share they dont care. the revolving door is more profitable than bringing talented people in smaller amounts.
Has he tried at a hotel for a monthly rate
That's thousands of dollars
Hotels in Canada are in $300 range. Motels are $250 a night
@@evadeanu1you can go to a shady one for 99 me and the crips always do that
blud's looking too fly to cry, but he continues to whine anyway.