Rather arrogant of you to assume that you are the one who is "informed" when you get your knowledge from people with a vested interest in exaggerating the benefits while downplaying the harms.
Yes, it's a bad assumption - but having spoken to a lot of 'real' Canadians I suspect he is dead right.
- They get their news from bad sources
- They overstate the numbers of immigrants and refugees
- They overstate the numbers of border crossing refugees
- They don't understand the rationale for immigration
- They mix up immigration with the refugee system
If I didn't encounter these things so often I would say that it's probably incorrect. But I encounter them virtually every time I engage with a stranger on this topic, in fact I can't think of being quoted a correct fact that I didn't know already.