Industry committee  Thanks very much. The hope had been that, when the Canada emergency student bursary became available, it would be made available to international students. It wasn't, so they have fallen between the cracks in terms of emergency support during the pandemic. Universities have fu

Industry committee  That's a very good question. I would say that I actually haven't heard that, but that's very interesting. Perhaps some of my colleagues have, but I have not heard that at all.

Industry committee  I don't have the number right in front of me. It does vary, but it is upwards of 20%.

Industry committee  It has never really been a trade-off like that. What we have heard is that enrolment numbers for domestic students are looking similar to those in previous years, so that's very good news. However, it has not been a situation of universities denying domestic students in order t

Industry committee  I haven't heard that, in terms of universities changing. I think the market is usually that with the admissions requirements, the top students are able to get in, and if there's less competition, more students will be able to get in, but, really, I haven't heard of that being an

Industry committee  There certainly have been reductions in costs across the community. There have been layoffs as a result, so it's been a tough time at many of our campuses.

Industry committee  Thanks for the question. We don't have a working group, but we stay in close contact with student associations and their national representatives on this and on a number of other issues. In many ways, the short answer is that we have close to a hundred institutions that are doin

Industry committee  Thanks very much for that question. It may be helpful for the other members to respond specifically with what's going on. Certainly, when we put 1.4 million students online in a period of three weeks in March—as Dr. McCauley referred to it, the innovation of 10 years within a ye

Industry committee  I think it's an absolutely tragic event. I guess it is a lesson learned for the universities, but also for the local health authorities, the provincial health authorities and the feds, on how to make sure that the quarantine works but also that the protocols are in place. That's

Industry committee  Yes. Very briefly, I can't speak on behalf of all the universities and what plans they have in place, but those are the plans that they are putting in place now to ensure that this type of event doesn't happen with international students.

Industry committee  The hard data on enrolment is still in flux. We'll probably know in October, I would think, at institutions across the country as to how much of a hit there has been. The fact is that right now, if I'm a student looking to come to Canada for the first time from China, I don't act

Industry committee  Correct. As I understand it right now, they still have to have a letter to say why they must come across, and that's being interpreted by border officers in different ways. However, that is if they have a student permit from before March 18. We're looking for clarity on that. We

Industry committee  Thank you very much. Thanks for the invitation, and thanks for conducting this study and for the extraordinary work that all parliamentarians are doing during this very challenging time. Universities Canada represents Canada's 95 universities nationally. Taken as a whole, our u