[caption id="attachment_1770" align="alignleft" width="817"] Immigration Minister Marc Miller is not committing to an idea floated by the government earlier this week to cap the number of international students entering Canada each year. (Spencer Colby/The Canadian Press)[/caption] According to immigration minister Marc Miller, Canada is on track to welcome 900,000 foreign students this year. With this, there will be more overseas students than ever before—roughly three times as many as came to the country ten years ago. Marc Miller stated that Canada is worried about the whole integrity of the educational system, not simply the increased strain that thousands of overseas students place on housing. The university ecosystem that brings in foreign students "is very lucrative and it's come with some perverse effects, some fraud in the system. Some people taking advantage of what is seen to be a backdoor entry into Canada," he said. Private and public universities generate C$20-C$30 billion per year in revenue on those who come to study from abroad, he said, adding, “Some people are making a lot of money out of it legitimately, some people are gaming the system, and my principal concern is with that integrity of the system.” The minister said that his concern was not the public universities, but “principally the private colleges that have just ballooned in different parts of Canada”. The minister earlier said the government was considering limiting the number of students allowed to enroll each year to ease the housing crisis. "Just putting a hard cap, which got a lot of public play over the last few days, is not the only solution to this," he said.