Decades-Long Links: Canadian Press and Auto Parts

decades-long links: International Trade Minister Jim Carr says beyond the economic impacts, students from abroad often establish important, decades-long links with Canada, according to The Toronto Star. Sean Kilpatrick / The Canadian Press file To put that in perspective, the document says the sector supported nearly 170,000 jobs in 2016 and had greater economic impacts than Canada's exports of auto parts, aircraft and lumber. The economic effects of foreign students nearly doubled between 2010 and 2016, when they reached a total of 15.5 billion in Canada for everything from tuition fees to rent and groceries, according to a federal analysis. The vast majority of foreign students have been coming from India and China, while recent years have seen surges from countries with fast-growing economies like Vietnam. He expects Canada to promote itself as an education destination in places with expanding economies and large populations of young people, like Colombia and parts of Africa. Officials from universities, colleges and the federal government are now in the early stages of developing an aligned strategy that will broaden campaigns in other parts of the world, Universities Canada president Paul Davidson said in an interview. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.