“…Most of the scholarship examining the history of international student policy in Canada has focused on the period after 2000, an era that is commonly associated with internationalization (Knight, 2015). A central focus in this work has been the issue of a federal-level internationalization strategy, which was not created until 2014 (Government of Canada, 2014), and the effect its absence and then creation has had on Canadian international student policy (e.g., Anderson, 2015;Bégin-Caouette, 2018;Desai-Trilokekar & Jones, 2015;Garson, 2016;Johnstone & Lee, 2014Knight-Grofe & Deacon, 2016;Sá & Sabzalieva, 2018;Tamtik, 2017;Tamtik et al, 2020;Trilokekar & El Masri, 2016a, 2016bTrilokekar & Kizilbash, 2013;Viczko & Tascón, 2016). The effect of this focus has been to situate the creation of the national strategy as the central event in the history of international student policy.…”