Please don't compare apples with kumquats.

Merkel rashly took in a million mostly unskilled, mostly Muslim, mostly young male refugees fleeing the ME disaster.

Canada is proposing to take in about 1% of population per year in immigrants - as in the Mulroney era and most of the time since - of which the majority (60% now and up to 75% under Mulroney) are in the economic class of vetted, skilled, contributing workers, 25% in the family reunification class and just 14%  (about 40,000) in the refugee class and most much better vetted than were the refugees who fled to Germany.

True, Trudeau has taken an immigration system even The Donald praises and as made it less economically oriented and more politically opportunistic but only at the margins and with any luck he and his gang of greenhorns, grifters and goofballs will be gone in 2019 and the Tories will be back to strengthen the system as they did under Mulroney and Harper.

But to compare Canada and Germany on this is ridiculous.

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