War of words
And bursting the Grit bubble
ABOVE THE FOLD
HE SAID, SHE SAID — Ontario and Ottawa continue to lock horns over the post-secondary foreign student cap.
What the feds are saying: Immigration Minister MARC MILLER is pushing back against the Ford government’s insistence that they were in the dark about the controversial cap on campuses, which has sent the sector into a tizzy.
“That’s complete garbage,” Miller told reporters. “We said quite clearly they need to get their houses in order. We spoke specifically about Ontario that has the largest number of international students. They should have known it. They’ve had auditor general reports. We’ve spoken quite publicly about it.”
Texts or it didn’t happen: Miller claimed the feds extended invitations to the province, but they did not attend. “It’s beneath me to share text messages with journalists, but the reality is that there was communication that just was never followed up on.”
What the province is saying: Colleges and Universities Minister JILL DUNLOP previously bla…