Over 980,000 Study Permits Issued to Foreign Students in 2023, Records Show

Over 980,000 Canadian study permits were issued to foreign students in 2023, according to recently released records. The information was released by the Department of Immigration in response to a request by Conservative MP Garnett Genuis, who inquired how many students were studying at each institution in Canada, as first reported by Blacklock’s Reporter. “The department can track the number of study permits issued that are destined to a designated learning institution as specified in the application,” cabinet wrote in an Inquiry of Ministry tabled in the Commons. “But it does not currently have the capability to track in which institution students are actually studying.”...