Unfortunately, the COVID-19_pandemic has become the perfect excuse to limit nonwhite immigration into some countries. Especially Canada, which has the 2 largest land area of any nation, but has less than 40 million people. Indeed, Canada has less than half of 1% of the worlds population. So much of the world has been kept out, without Canada ever posting, KEEP THEM OUT signs. However, the end result is a series of things that still keeps Canada from ever containing 1% of the worlds population.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Oceania#Australia
Australia was able to build up much more of its infrastructure than Canada has. Yet, Australia has millions of fewer people than Canada. Up until the covid era, Australia was already building up its infrastructure as if it had a larger population than Canada.
"Troubling new evidence about Canadian attitudes, shaped by the pandemic, suggests that even when borders finally reopen and the economic rebuilding begins, immigrants may no longer be as welcome as they have been in the past.
Outside Canada, the far right has stoked anti-immigrant rhetoric, and Canada is not immune to racism against immigrants." https://theconversation.com/covid-19-has-hardened-canadian-views-on-immigration-146512
