The author seems to imply that Canadian immigration rates are too low compared with places like the UK, the Netherlands, Sweden, etc., but doesn't bother mentioning the fact that mass immigration has been a catastrophe for Europe and the UK. He (and anyone else interested in the subject) would do well to read The Strange Death of Europe by Douglas Murray. Personally, if we as a society feel that it is important to grow our population (a highly debatable claim, to say the least), I would prefer we create incentives within our own society to encourage productive citizens to have more children rather than bring in hundreds of thousands of people whose culture and values may be incompatible with life in a liberal democracy. As for refugees, we should be working harder to ensure as many of them as possible can seek refuge closer to their homes, rather than transplanting them to the other side of the world, into a society whose rules of conduct are alien to them.