Former Canadian PM Harper gave an interesting talk earlier this year[1] where he touched on this. In short, Canada is incredibly lucky to be geographically pro

Former Canadian PM Harper gave an interesting talk earlier this year[1] where he touched on this. In short, Canada is incredibly lucky to be geographically protected from immigration. Its only land neighbour has a comparable quality of life, similar culture, and is vast enough to act as a natural buffer. This means that Canada can implement its immigration policies quite well because the gap between policy and reality is quite low. Contrast this to places like continental Europe and the US where geography has not provided natural barriers and the gap between immigration policy and reality can be considerable. This gap leads to a high degree of immigration cynicism from the local populace because they perceive the government to be unable to control it. He considers this unaddressed cynicism to be a contributing factor to the wave of nationalism that's going around. --- [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvOqeaVWYe4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvOqeaVWYe4