I completely agree with what has just been said.
I just want to outline the situation in northern Ontario in terms of how this issue is viewed in our communities, such as Hearst, Kapuskasing, Timmins and so on.
Not too long ago, when we started taking in international students, people would ask me whether I thought that these students would stay. I would tell them that I didn't know, since we were just starting to work with them. As I said earlier, over time, we saw that almost all of them applied for a post‑graduation work permit and almost all of them obtained one. That's the best news for us. Consider the demographic decline and the labour shortage.
In any case, as I said, for Canada and for northern Ontario, the students whom we take in and who stay constitute an extremely significant added value. If they leave Canada and return home with their Canadian education, they'll be our best ambassadors for the country and for our area.
This benefits everyone. I don't see the point of maintaining this strange dual intent criterion, which I think is counterproductive in every way.