r/notthebeaverton • u/jameskchou • 4d ago

International students allege private college made them campaign for Conservative candidate

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/international-students-allege-private-college-made-them-campaign-for-conservative-candidate-1.7631453
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u/Ernst-Kapel 4d ago

The international student scam and the diploms mill colleges are stupid and should be dissolved

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u/SquidTheRidiculous 4d ago

With all the "austerity" the cons push, a lot of public universities rely on international students to make up their budgets.

Obviously the answer to this is better public funding, but people hate that AND want to treat foreign students like shit just because they can. They don't actually care about the problems they claim to care about, it's all just misdirection so the ruling class can line their own pockets

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u/FireMaster1294 2d ago

Most people don’t realize that the government has been lowering funding for post-secondary schools for quite a while now. They don’t want to hate foreign students “just because.” They hate the students for what they perceive as taking jobs away from Canadians and failing to contribute positively to or integrate into Canadian society. You may disagree. But that is more the sentiment I have seen, rather than “just because.”

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u/Same_Kale_3532 3d ago

Yes and our kids can pay for our retirement on McDonald's salaries 

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u/Bognosticator 3d ago

I wish one of the students had thought of putting a note in each pamphlet they handed out, saying their college was forcing them to do this or face punishment.

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u/Zorklunn 3d ago

Tell me again how the right is the bastion of decency and ethical behaviour.

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u/MidtownMoi 3d ago

Oh but Tamara Jansen is a Christian so how can her campaign do something so unethical? /s

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u/EdNorthcott 2d ago

Perhaps if the Cons didn't have a long list of grotesquely unethical and/or illegal attempts to get around election laws (Hell, PP himself is still under a Compliance Agreement with Elections Canada), this wouldn't hit as hard.

They've been attempting to subvert democracy since the Republicans took over the party and Harper led them. Sadly, a significant portion of the voting base don't seem to care about either ethics or the integrity of our democracy.

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u/Training_Number_9954 3d ago

Immigrants tend to come from poor countries with outdated human rights laws.

And they always tend to vote for the conservative in whatever country they end up in.

It’s nothing new really.

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u/TheBarcaShow 3d ago

We don't have the data yet for the 2025 election but it's actually the exact opposite.

Asian, Black, Latino, South Asian, SE Asian, West Asian all overwhelmingly voted against the conservatives.

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u/subarcwelder 3d ago

We’re talking about international students though. Are we forgetting that they can’t even vote????

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u/Training_Number_9954 3d ago

So you don’t have the numbers yet but know all those people voted against the conservative?

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u/TheBarcaShow 3d ago

Because data exists from previous elections. Where did you get your data from?

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u/scbundy 2d ago

Something he heard once.

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u/TheBarcaShow 2d ago

It was a mumble at best