As Canada contemplates capping international students, what impact do they have on our country?
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When Ekta Kumar moved from India to Nova Scotia to pursue her master’s last year, she says she got lucky thanks to a local connection and found a family to move in with.
“I thought maybe I should just enhance my skills, just kind of go abroad and find out how education works in different countries,” Kumar says in an interview. “That’s what brought me here to Canada. And of course, I did want my family to have a better future.”
But her husband and their daughter needed their own space. Eventually, they secured an apartment in Halifax. She knows that’s not an easy process for many.
“I have seen the people who are coming into my university or other universities trying to find an accommodation maybe six months or seven months in advance, just trying to reach everybody through social media (to see) if they have any accommodation available.”
When federal Housing Minister and Nova Scotia MP Sean Fraser floated the idea of capping the number of international students coming to Canada, Kumar was on board.
“There are there are too many of us now,” she says.
Still, Kumar says she’s not “blaming international students” for the challenges in the housing market.
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