Guess who's coming to Canada

The Globe and Mail

Elizabeth Church
March 6, 2010

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In a small classroom at Toronto's York University, a handful of students gather each morning to practise their English.

"Saudi Arabia is a very safe country, so you can go anywhere," a young woman writes on the blackboard as they take up the day's lesson.

In fact, all the students in this intensive language class are Saudis, here thanks to a decision by their government to pump billions of petrodollars into higher education. At York, the language school can't keep up …

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