Charlie Cheng, deputy director of the CEC, points out that the number of students going to Canada rose sharply at the time of the Chinese missile tests in 1996 (surpassing 3000) and at that time their office was flooded with telephone inquiries.
加拿大教育中心副主任鄭佳力指出，一九九六年中共試射飛彈，赴加的學生一舉突破三千人，詢問電話幾乎天天爆滿。