ABSTRACT
This chapter will critically examine Equity, Diversity and Inclusivity (EDI) in Canadian universities as it affects international students. We argue that these EDI activities are largely performative and play into the selling of diversity to domestic and international students. Moreover, a program that recruits a group of largely racialized students from outside Canada on the condition that they pay tuition fees exponentially higher than that of their Canadian counterparts is fundamentally inequitable. EDI programs are not able to rectify this inequity even if they were to address their predicament, which by all reports they do not. The EDI policies serve as a marketing approach, a way of selling diversity and multiculturalism to predominantly racialized youth in the global south and domestically.
