University of Sydney: Human Trafficking Criminal wwww.ielts.agency 41
Canada’s Governments act to attract as many international students as possible to maximize the
injection of offshore revenue into its thriving domestic economy. Most persons who apply for an
Canadian residency visa are not proficient in French and opt to take an English language test to
support their application for a Canadian residency visa. Over the past decade, IELTS has proven
itself to be a loyal proxy for Canada’s opportunistic, coordinated trade and immigration policy
scams. Figure 17, extracted from IDP Education’s 2017 Annual Report captures this mutually
beneficial partnership between IDP Education and the Canadian Government.
Figure 17
Canada and IDP: Business PartnersSource: IDP Education (2017b, p. 18)The business structure of IELTS test centers are comparable to the Franchisor–Franchisee system.
The lucrative virtual monopoly (i.e. disparate duopoly) market for English language testing
services (to support Canada’s skilled migration program) has proven to be irresistible among
opportunistic, unconscionable public and private post-secondary education providers in Canada.
There are more than 125 IELTS Canada test centers. There are around 50 IELTS test centers in
the United States. The United States has around 300 million more residents than Canada.