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> Draw a circle around the country and consider the effects of
> various things (i.e. what crosses the circle in either direction.) ...
> A typical foreign student will easily spend five or ten thousand
> dollars of his own country's money a year while staying in Canada...
> he will leave the country with nothing but one small piece of paper...
> So what am I missing?

Within that circle, draw a smaller circle around the government (taking
the universities as part of the government).  During his stay here, the
foreign student pays tuition and taxes into this circle; after he leaves,
he pays nothing into it.  The Canadian student pays taxes into it for the
rest of his life.  Yet they receive the same services out of it.  This is
the justification:  the Canadian student is paying for his education for
years to come, the foreign student gets it as a package deal.

Whether you think this is *sufficient* justification for higher foreign-
student tuition fees depends on your priorities, and on your philosophy
of educational funding.
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