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Over the past two decades, Canadian universities have relied increasingly on international students to fund their operations.

Catherine Dauvergne is a law professor at the Peter A. Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia.

The announcement that visas for international students in Canada will be halved in the coming year hardly comes as a surprise.

After all, international students have been vilified as part of the moral panic about housing and temporary foreign workers. If universities push back, it can easily be portrayed as simple greed.

But the reality is that cutting international study permits is complicated and will have consequences for Canadian students – and there were other solutions available to the federal government.

If the problem is housin

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