Who's talking about "the hundreds of illiterate millions" (I think you really mean, "the hundreds of millions of illiterate")? Of course Canada wouldn't be ready. But Canada has nothing to worry about, because we're talking about less than 25,000 APPROVED border-jumping "economic migrants"--refugees--this year.  Our total planned refugee numbers for 2017: 44,000.  Into a population of 36 million?  We can handle it.

If you choose to bolster your argument with historical data, please, be accurate.  "Only small numbers came, to a country without welfare or free healthcare..." is not accurate.  In the years just before World War I, Canada took in so many immigrants--most would qualify today as refugees--into a country of 7 million population, that if the same ratio was applied today, we'd be welcoming 1.5 MILLION refugees a year.