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I see both sides on this, we really shouldn't be accepting international students (on international student visas) who need food support in the first place.
Yes that means some people will not be able to come here. There's still more applicants than available slots, so no real problem there.
The whole point of exporting education is to make money for Canada though, just like any other export, which doesn't work if they aren't able to pay.
Now if someone is here on a refugee or PR visa, I don't have a problem helping them with food and cost of living.
Also, threatening someone is never the right way to go about discussing policy.
Hey look! I found it! It's the whole motherfucking problem!
This is treating both education and people as commodities. Maybe we shouldn't be thinking this way.
At all.
Ever.
Without economic growth and technology advancement, our quality of life would be mud huts and berries.
I agree that we don't have the balance quite right but overall the system has worked.
It used to work, and has worked, off and on, when we get the balance right. You're quite correct about that.
The problem is that the people who benefit from an unbalanced system aren't the people who are hurt by it. That means the system isn't self-balancing until it's so out of whack that the rich are getting whacked.