The federal and provincial governments have been underfunding universities for decades. Recently, universities were able to start recruiting foreign students to make up for the shortfall, but it looks like that money tap will be turned down. It doesn’t look like there’s a plan to make up for it.

At the same time, the feds want to

recruit more than 1,000 top international researchers to Canada, with the budget injecting up to $1.7-billion into a suite of recruitment measures.

That’ll be tough if universities see their income crater.

  • BlameThePeacock@lemmy.caEnglish
    161·
    23 hours ago

    Yea, this is stupid. One of my clients is a public college, and they’re already hurting. They already cut a bunch of programs to save the rest. A new round of international student cuts is going to gut so many more that they just worked so hard to save.

    • sbv@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      82·
      22 hours ago

      Our politicians are incredibly short sighted. It’s amazing that the same budget both defunds universities and says we want to attract the “best and the brightest” to those same universities.

      • zqwzzle@lemmy.caEnglish
        31·
        20 hours ago

        It’s annoying the only real choices are business daddy, or business daddy that’s deiniftely a bigoted racist.

        • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.caEnglish
          1·
          8 hours ago

          Business daddy is telling Canada we are not productive enough, but refuses to fix that with R&D spending. A bunch of oxy addicts with back hoes is not a stable future economy, Carney knows that.

        • Kindness is Punk@lemmy.ca
          31·
          18 hours ago

          Yup, Neo-liberal or full blown Nuremberg. Easy choice but we’re still getting fucked. We need ranked choice voting and proportional representation but how do you get our parliament to vote through a resolution that endangers a lot of their safe seats.

          • cecilkorik@lemmy.caEnglish
            2·
            6 hours ago

            We were so close with Trudeau. He was elected entirely on the back of that promise and everyone knew it. All we had to do was hold his feet to the fire when he tried to weasel out of it after getting the majority that left him no reasonable excuse for not following through. But we all know what happened. He later even said his biggest regret was not following through on electoral reform. Well, yeah. I’m not sure I believe him, but if he’s telling the truth I hope it fucking haunts him. It should. I’ll certainly never forgive him.