Actually, Canada is growing naturally by 120,000 people per year without immigration. It is sustainable growth given the lack of growth in jobs and the forecast decline in number of jobs due to automation. Notable is that our entire planet is threatened by population growth - it is the single biggest impact on environment and will be catastrophic. Also, your facts are wrong: Canadians have become poorer as immigration was increased in the 90's - the GDP per capita shows that household income is in decline while inflation has kept increasing and household debt has increased. Also, high immigration is a net financial burden on taxpayer resources - from an economic standpoint, the numbers are beyond capacity so the margin of economic return has vanished and is now in the negatives. Immigration was fine around 80,000 persons per year and supported the economy and growth. It is too high now and is destroying the economy as we are social benefit state.