As I wrote, my experience living in Quebec led me to spread the gospel of its importance and uniqueness to an increasingly less receptive English Canada. The government claiming out-of-province students are extractive and harmful to Quebec society is both inaccurate and insulting.

Beyond the wild accounting there is also this bananas policy:

Exploiting secrecy loopholes and differences in the administration of taxation on cross-border commercial activity: a tale as old as Western civilization.

At the time, I hand-waved Trump's attempts at this during his first term, as he used only words and not state power.

China has tended only to do this for public-facing statements and officials. The US, meanwhile, appears to be targeting the internal policies of otherwise obscure corporations.

"China is uniquely situated to leverage this type of market
power due to its enormous, growing consumer base and authoritarian structure."

Not unique any more!

In practice, this manifested in many high profile instances of foreign MNCs parroting Chinese gov talking points or explicitly endorsing controversial positions in their home markets. Famously, Dreamworks included a map in the background of a children's movie depicting the nine-dash line.

This would be so funny if it didn't belie something so terrifying.

This is precisely right and if other universities or, indeed, Columbia's admin, think pre-emptive compliance will save them they are gravely mistaken.

A woke DEI hire who casually dominated the league immediately upon arrival.

Hyperbolic? Probably. But terrifying nonetheless!

Primary undergraduate: 6 universities, all in the bottom 8 including the lowest 4.

Comprehensive: 8 universities, all in the bottom 9 including the lowest 6.

Medical/doctoral: 5 universities, all in the bottom 6, including lowest 4.

Browsing this year's MacLean's University rankings reveals the severe state of higher ed in Ontario: Every single Ontario university has a terrible student-faculty ratio across all three categories. Not a single institution that isn't at the very bottom of this metric.

A very succinct (and damning) analysis of the insularity of Canadian progressive politics.