Do Not Dare Say "Good Riddance" When My Students Go Home.

Goddam such cruelty.

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Do not you dare say good riddance to them, my students, my friends—they are mostly good, sincere, and kind. They are not mere numbers, not shadows to be swept away. Canada’s immigration system has spiralled wild, a tempest unleashed when there should have been calm—no cap on international students, madness blooming like weeds in an untended garden and then cursing the weeds when we have not tended our garden?

No natio…