What a troubling question.
In the first year of the pandemic, we had 800 students scheduled to arrive in Canada. We had to disappoint them all, because we had no way of bringing them in, obviously. In the second year of the pandemic, we had over a thousand students who we knew were likely unable to come to Canada. We arranged virtual internships for them, so they were still able to work with Canadian researchers, but they stayed in their home countries where they were safe. There was no travel.
This year, because of pent-up demand or whatever, we have 2,100 students arriving in the country as I speak. We have 74 Ukrainian students trying to get to Canada—fingers crossed—and we are doing our best to make sure they can come here. We have students coming from around the world. Most of them will arrive.
The past two years were not much fun.