Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'll be directing my questions to Dr. Tibbits.
Conestoga College took in 84,000 international students in four years. In 2023, they took in more than U of T, UBC and Calgary combined. This had an incredibly negative impact on the cost of housing and the availability of health care services and created a youth jobs crisis in the region, but yet Conestoga College's operating surplus went from $3 million in 2015 to $252 million in 2024.
Dr. Tibbits, in 2024 in an article in Guelph Today, you were quoted as saying that some of them—international students—live like that, 14 to a house, in slumlord housing, because they don't want to pay more than $400. You are still requesting a record number of foreign student permits. Is that correct?