Most of us chose to come here many years ago. In my case 8 years from high school till now, imagine you gotta say good bye to your friends, parents, home to travel to the coldest country + experience countless winters in hoping of a greater future. On top of that, tuition fee (you have to stay enrolled in school so that's 13k every year) + cost of living can be a great burden on you.
We (international students) are not pampered and spoiled kids who keep receiving money from their parents. We help them out too by doing part-time and full time in summer. Not to mention other has to work more hours to get extra cash. I was lucky enough that my parents paid for my tuition from high school. After I went to college, I gotta haul my a** and work like every other residents.t
Then graduation and we frantically apply for jobs to get that precious "Canadian Experience" and not everyone gets a job. My first job after graduation literally paid me $1000/month for the next 7 months. Then, company found another batch of "interns" to exploit and decided to put me on full time with ($35k year or $18/h) which is not enough to live in big cities. Again, I sucked it up and kept working for that experience. I remember working for 12 hours a day and wondering to myself if I would ever be able to get out of this company since EE score was high (~470) and I'd need 2 years of experience to be able to apply. Again, not all of us can reach ~470 or 468 with 2 years of experience..It's based highly on the degree.
I'm not complaining or b*ching about my life, but this is the story that every CEC applicants can relate. So CEC should be prioritized with respect to their early-day sacrifice.
P/s: If any inland FSW has made the same sacrifice to Canada, they do deserve the same chance