Language providers across Canada are concerned that visa issues, along with accommodation shortages, meant they did not recover as they would have liked from declines in business during Covid-19.
Languages Canada is confident that the country will revise its study and work rights policy to benefit language students financially and pedagogically.
Though staffing numbers are down, language student figures in Canada are increasing after falling by nearly 100,000 last year, from a 2018 high of nearly 160,000 students.