[kwoldtimer]

[QUOTE=Acajack;7952190]In terms of selecting people to be admitted to the country Canada's immigration system is the furthest thing from a free for all. It may not be perfect but it may be the closest thing there is to a global gold standard.

Only someone opposed to most any immigration at all would see it as opening up our doors to the masses of great unwashed. (For lack of a better term.)

Refugee admissions are another story but of course if we are going to be compassionate we don't have the luxury of choosing where crises and wars break out and which types of people are going to be in danger and lose everything.[/QUOTE]

Although we do retain, in general, control over whom we decide to accept as refugees.