On the first question, whether this is the right target, I don't have an opinion about any particular target.
On the question of whether Canadians will accept this, I think they will. I think it can be sold in a way that is convincing. I think that it could be rejected, and it would be rejected, if it were presented as some unreasonably large thing by political elites.
What we know about the way the public reads numbers is that nobody understands what these numbers mean unless you're in this field and this is what you do day to day. In terms of what they can be told in advance of the arrival of migrants, I don't think the numbers matter. I think the framing and the discussion of this—how it will benefit Canada and how it will benefit immigrants and natives alike—are more important.
Once they arrive, they will be accepted, to the extent to which they integrate in labour markets and to the extent to which they are able to not be segregated from society in a way that would frustrate many natives. I think there's always the danger of demagogues picking on particular cases and highlighting that and turning Canadians against immigration. I think a numeric target has very little to do with whether that happens or not.