I can tell you that I'm not a specialist in Canadian immigration.
I have done the vast majority of my resettlement work with UNHCR and the U.S. State Department's refugee program, which is currently being gutted. I looked at Canada and the hemispheric border, at partnerships and at the very strong, robust resettlement and immigration system Canada has always had. When I was at UNHCR—maybe you won't be at all surprised to hear this, sir—the number of refugees who asked to be resettled in Canada versus the United States.... It always broke my heart to tell them that I had many fewer slots and opportunities for people to be considered for Canada rather than the U.S. There are a number of reasons for this.
I'll add that, from my own experience, now is the time to create more opportunities for people who have no durable solutions, with the extent to which numbers of displaced people keep growing, the continuous narrowing of political co-operation, the absolute dismantling of multilateralism and international law, and the financial architecture that underpins humanitarian and development assistance....
To this I'll add the climate crisis and how it underpins and inflames every single thing that we already know is driving displacement.