Thank you very much. I really appreciate that question.
There's a challenge with the marketization of international education overall because, in some ways, we see a large wealth transfer from lower-income countries to countries like Canada across the global north. As I mentioned, Germany has a very different approach. In some countries, there's more of a focus on recruiting international students as part of a broader development approach and a broader aid approach, prioritizing different diversity among students and their backgrounds.
It's a difficult question to answer because of the restrictions in the system. I'm just trying to think about this for a moment.
Many institutions have important services that they provide for international students that could be further supported. Higher education institutions play a really important role on behalf of the government in providing these services, which are essentially settlement supports for students who the government would have previously funded. There could be coordination and regulation of those services to ensure that there's consistency and that students are able to thrive while they're here.
Maintaining a positive outlook on immigration to ensure that we don't fall into empty immigration rhetoric that could produce an increase in hate crimes, racism and discrimination is also extremely important.