A band-aid solution for a Liberal-instigated problem:
Liberal cabinet ministers are suggesting the federal government is ready to tackle long-standing problems related to the international student program, including cases of fraud and exploitation by shady educational institutions.
But in a slight twist, they are doing so as part of efforts to ease the housing crisis as the government faces enormous pressure to help increase the supply of affordable homes.
The federal cabinet's three-day retreat in Charlottetown focused on housing as ministers hashed out their agenda for the fall sitting of Parliament.
International students became a focal point at the retreat when the Housing Minister Sean Fraser, who was recently shuffled from the immigration file, suggested ballooning foreign student enrolments are putting "unprecedented levels of demand" on the housing market.
Fraser said if colleges and universities are going to bring record numbers of foreign students to Canada, they need to play a part in housing them.
Let the last sentence sink in.
It's not the Liberal government that has invited in droves of unvetted migrants with low skills, caused inflation or halted house construction; it was the universities and has been all along.
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