@evergreen5, not sure if the situation is the same with students from China, but earlier in the year the Canadian government had a spat with Saudi Arabia over human rights abuses that resulted in S.A. threatening to pull it’s students in Canadian medical school programs. In this particular case the Saudi government pays the tuition and costs for it’s students. I think most students from China pay their own way, but I was reading an article that said that the Chinese government had issued a warning to students about studying in Canada trying to dissuade them from going. It must have had a significant impact because the independent companies that help students apply to overseas schools were scrambling to find other destinations for their customers to apply to (apparently Australia, New Zealand, and Germany are also popular destinations for Chinese students). So while the Chinese government may not have direct financial control over it’s students attending Canadian universities, it can certainly influence their choices.