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Scott Stinson: Spending scandal at Conestoga College is a reminder of Canada's shameful international student boom
Inflated salaries for a former president, luxury trips and expensive meals were some of the instances of misspending uncovered by an audit
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For years, the stories of the overseas sacrifices that were made to fuel Ontario’s international student boom have been told.
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Families in poor countries that sold their few worldly possessions, sometimes the actual farm, to pay the steep college tuition costs for foreign students in the land of milk and honey. Often, they found the education and opportunity were not at all what they expected.
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But now comes the perhaps inevitable other end of that story, with news this week that the Doug Ford government is placing Conestoga College, in the province’s southwest, under administration after an audit found what it called “numerous egregious financial decisions.”
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