Minister Was Warned Lifting International Student Work Limit Could Undermine Program

Minister Was Warned Lifting International Student Work Limit Could Undermine Program
Housing Minister Sean Fraser rises during question period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Dec. 11, 2023. The Canadian Press/Sean Kilpatrick
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Allowing international students to work more than 20 hours a week could distract from their studies and undermine the objective of temporary foreign worker programs, public servants warned the federal government in 2022.

The caution came in documents prepared for former immigration minister Sean Fraser as Ottawa looked at waiving the restriction on the number of hours international students could work off-campus—a policy the Liberals eventually implemented.