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I'm ok with people coming into Canada with only a little bit of English, as most of them do learn it reasonably quickly. (the one's who don't are, as the article said older family members usually)
My current issue (Since I'm a student I suppose) is the English level of some of my TA's and fellow students. Universities need to raise the standards for English ability for the students. I've had some TA's you could not understand, the labs were absolutly painful, just because of the barrier to communication. The other issue in when doing group work with undergraduate students. I've had some where someone's entire part of a project had to be rewritten due the the horrendous English it contained. Asking them to do it again would be useless, so someone else had to rewrite it all, on top of their own work. To a large extent IETLS/TOEFL and the like have become a bit of a joke, since students are now being taught exactly how to pass it, even if they have rudimentry English skills at best.
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