I don't either. I do know med schools are definitely held up by the giant fees the international medical students pay, so it'll be interesting to see what happens to them due to them being banned, aside from the Saudis whose government pay them to be here apparently and probably will always find a spot here. Apparently already 88 percent of med students are Canadian born so they say the change won't be much, but honestly I work in a hospital and it feels like almost all of the students at whatever level are international.
Really it would make more sense to me to fix the family doctor problem in Ontario to provide a bridging program for doctors who already live here but aren't able to practice because they don't qualify, a lot of skilled people being wasted that way, or having to do dumb shit like a psychiatrist I know who had to practice as a GP in rural Nova Scotia for five years before they'd let him be a psychiatrist here in Ontario. That's a waste of talent that already exists here that would be a win for everyone, rather than training a Canadian GP who will get burned out on the low pay and dogsbody work, and quit and go be a hospitalist.
I think immigration needs huge reform in Canada, and that the private diploma mills should all be closed and have only publicly funded colleges and universities. I think the diploma to citizenship pathway needs to be closed. But also if the government is going to make these caps, they need to ensure funding is adjusted for the schools. Barring international medical students is going to hurt med schools, the Saudi government pays giant amounts of money to secure spots for their citizens here, as well as positions on faculty, etc. If they stop that it'll really cause problems.