I'd say it's an appropriate step, but I don't think it has struck a balance yet.
In preparation for today, I canvassed one of my colleagues who is an international student recruitment agent. What she was telling me is that there are still a lot of courses where universities and colleges require an in-person component. For example, there's lab work, or there are specific co-op requirements or something like that. These students are really being left out in the cold, because they can't complete all of their studies online even if they wanted to.
She was also telling me that the government is now moving towards this system where certain colleges, universities and other schools are either approved or not approved to receive international students, even if they're a designated learning institution. One example she gave me was of a person who has paid $78,000 in tuition for a very prestigious private school and is now unsure whether they are even going to be able to come to Canada at all.
I would further point out that—