Yes, just to echo Mr. Dangzalan and Mr. Tao, I've heard situations from our deans here at CASA that they have been given funding from Citizenship and Immigration Canada to go out and recruit students in these African French-speaking countries, telling them to come to Canada and that there are opportunities and pathways for residency and citizenship. They make all these efforts, and universities use their funding to go out and recruit these students.
When the students do apply and when they do show up to apply for a study permit, they are told that we don't believe they'll go back to their home country after they're done studying, which is a completely paradoxical message to what they were told by university staff.
More transparency needs to be made by the government. More communication needs to be done between IRCC and the staff on the ground to make sure that students are getting the correct information. If not, it's really a waste of resources for the government, the universities that are going out there trying to recruit these students and us as students.
That's all I'll echo on that.
Thank you.