International students are among the most overlooked sources of Canadian economic prosperity.
In 2018, the second-last of the pre-pandemic years, international students enrolled at Canadian colleges and universities made a $22 billion contribution to the economy. And their studies supported about 218,000 jobs, according to a recent report by RBC Economics.
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