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It evaluates governments’ discursive power and its role within higher-education discourse communities. Using a discursive institutionalist framework and qualitative research, the research analyzes discursive content from 16 Tier 1 and 2 universities across British Columbia and Ontario. 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With the advent of internationalization strategies by federal and provincial governments, what effect do government ideas have on Canadian universities? This article evaluates the discursive power of government, and its role in discourse communities pertaining to higher education internationalization. Employing a discursive institutionalist framework and qualitative research design, I evaluated discursive content at 16 Tier 1 and 2 universities in British Columbia and Ontario. The findings indicate that governments have had weak ideational influence over the past decade, especially at universities with a global or national orientation. Many of these universities have been undergoing a subtle shift in their internationalization rationales—although not all, and not at the same pace. Yet some Canadian universities have increasingly “looked within” to rationalize internationalization, because their discourse communities are dominated by internal voices more concerned with organizational context than global competitiveness.  \nKeywords: internationalization, internationalization rationales, discursive institutionalism  \nRésumé  \nLes universités justifient l’internationalisation en fonction de paradigmes qui émergent de différents contextes. Avec la venue de stratégies d’internationalisation de la part du gouvernement fédéral et des gouvernements provinciaux, quels sont les effets des idées gouvernementales sur les universités canadiennes? Cet article évalue le pouvoir discursif du gouvernement, et le rôle de celui-ci au sein des communautés discursives en ce qui concerne l’internationalisation dans l’enseignementsupérieur. En utilisant le cadre de l’institutionnalisme discursif et un plan de recherche qualitatif, nous analysons le contenu discursif dans seize universités de première et deuxième catégories en Colombie-Britannique et en Ontario. Les conclusionsindiquent que les gouvernements ont eu une faible influence idéationnelle au cours de la dernière décennie, particulièrement dans les universités ayant une orientation internationale ou nationale. Plusieurs de ces universités ont connu un changement subtil en ce qui concerne leur approche de l’internationalisation, quoique ce changement se soit effectué à des vitesses différentes, et pas partout. En outre, quelques universités canadiennes justifient l’internationalisation en fonction du contexte organisationnel plutôt que de la compétitivité internationale en raison de la prédominance des voix internes au sein de leurs communautés discursives.  \nMots-clés : internationalisation, justifications de l’internationalisation, institutionnalisme discursif  \nIntroduction  \nIn many countries, public policies for higher education (HE) have a profound effect on the thinking of university administrators. In Canada, federal and provincial governmental strategies for HE internationalization have emphasized the market for international students, and Canada’s global competitiveness in higher education.  \nThese strategies could provide governments with ideational power to alter or reinforce university rationales for internationalization. One way to evaluate the effect of government policies is to examine the responsiveness of Canadian universities when they discuss and justify internationalization. What effect does government policy have on the internationalization rationales deployed by Canadian universities? Do university leaders adopt  \nCanadian Journal of Higher Education | Revue canadienne d’enseignement supérieur 50:4 (2020)   \nthe paradigms suggested by government, or do they get their ideas about internationalization elsewhere?  \nTo answer these research questions, I examined the dynamics of internationalization at 16 Tier 1 and 2 universities in British Columbia and Ontario. 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