If UCB or UCLA isn’t good enough , then I don’t see McGill making the cut, either, let alone UBC. No offense to any of the schools listed. A student can shine at any of those places. I also don’t think that the Canadian Unis are that inexpensive for non Canadians anymore.
Not all Asians are like this. My Asian FIL scrimped and saved to send all 4 of his kids to a variety of decent, but unremarkable, undergrad schools in the US. Years later, one of the kids has a medical degree from McGill, another Chem E PHD from a top 10 Engineering school and is doing just fine thanks in Silicon valley, another is tenured at an Ivy, and the other has a measly MaSC, and is doing great in life.
It’s not where you start, it’s where you finish.