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The B.C. government boasted Monday it had lured far more foreign students per capita than anywhere else in Canada — 130,000 in total — claiming they inject $2 billion each year into the economy, creating 29,000 jobs.

“These students enhance our global perspectives and connections, and their presence helps lay the groundwork for a prosperous and economically diverse future for B.C.,” said Advanced Education Minister Andrew Wilkinson.

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What Wilkinson didn’t say about the B.C. Jobs Plan, however, is it has virtually no strategy to house foreign students, whose numbers have been exceeding the government’s targets. The volume of foreign students has jumped by 44,000 in the past five years.

That has many people worried in Metro Vancouver, which is the chosen city for four out of five B.C. foreign students and where municipal politicians say the rental vacancy rate is one of the worst in the world.