Richard231: I think you don't fully understand Saunders' argument. It appears he's mainly concerned about the negative collateral impacts of uncontrolled unauthorized migration on Canada's legal and controlled immigration and refugee streams, which are relatively massive in comparison to the numbers accepted by most other Western countries. Saunders doesn't want to see the legal streams jeopardized by a public backlash. People make a lot about noise about Germany's intake of 1 million refugees in one year, which I believe is offset by the fact that Germany's acceptance rate for asylum seekers who enter the country is lower than 50%. Canada's legal intake numbers relative to population are the equivalent of Germany accepting roughly 700,000 immigrants and refugees every single year. It seems unlikely that Canadian-style immigration levels would be sustained by German voters for very long.