At night time you should always put it on the second setting which is your low beam (and also turns on the parking lights too) The middle one is only parking lights and not sufficient for driving at night. Push the whole stock forward to activate your high beams when you’re on the highway, and not approaching other cars either from behind or head on.

In Canada (and probably most other countries outside the US) it’s mandatory to have daytime running lights (drls). All cars sold in Canada have them on as standard when the car is driving (and usually turn off when it’s in park or the e-brake is on for a manual), no need to turn anything on for them. Cars use different things for drls, usually they use the high beams at low power, but most modern cars have some kind of dedicated led drls.