It's important to note that approximately 30% of people who are granted permanent residence are already temporary residents in Canada. That pressure doesn't always come from new cases.
With regard to the pressure that temporary immigration puts on the system, the number of students, temporary foreign workers and asylum-seekers arriving in Canada is indeed rising sharply, and we have to use the tools we have to welcome those people.
The situation regarding asylum-seekers in particular isn't specific to Canada. There are 110 million displaced persons around the world. The Americans are seeing 2.2 million people crossing their southwestern border—