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Spending program

International Students

Department of Citizenship and Immigration · Immigration, refugees and citizenship

Headline figures

Fiscal year 2024–25

$104M

1.5% of Immigration, refugees and citizenship spending in 2024–25.

Up $25.1M from $78.9M in 2023–24.

$3.47per tax filer$2.53per person

Per tax filer uses 29,965,100 tax filers (2023, the latest count published); per person uses a population of 41,162,593 (2024). An allocation of cost, not a tax bill.

International Students, by fiscal year

Source and basis

  • GC InfoBase - Open Datasets, retrieved 2026-11-03. Open Government Licence - Canada.
  • Actual spending reported by the department for this program, reconciled to Public Accounts expenditures by vote. Includes operating costs, capital and payments to others.

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