I think it varies from region to region and from university to university. Obviously, if we want to retain international students with a view to granting them permanent residency, the process has to be started as soon as they arrive, not in their fourth year of study. Contact with the communities needs to be established in their first year of study. However, that's not always the case. What's more, for a very large number of francophone post-secondary institutions in minority communities, international students represent an extremely important source of funding. Clearly, the pool is there.
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