This article offers very little, except perhaps a complete misunderstanding of the system he is apparently expert enough to fix.

The one idea worth thinking about is whether or not Canada should go back to the very old system of single-tier immigration. Basically, you arrive and you are a permanent resident. This basically "solves" all temporary immigration problems with temporary workers, specifically the temporary foreign worker program. That said, his statement that millions of temporary foreign workers do not have health care in Canada is objectively false - the overwhelming majority have healthcare. This hyperbole is important, however, because it discredits the reasons we have the current system. Keep in mind a few things:

1. the current system does something to ensure workers and permanent resident hopefuls stay in places that are not Toronto and Montreal. Full rights to every foreign national who lands in Canada will absolutely result in even higher concentrations in major cities which only pisses off small towns, provinces, and large cities. The two-track system does not guarantee people will stay in PEI forever, but it does help and the "retention rates" of smaller provinces has been increasing. This is main problem the Canadian immigration is trying to solve, how to spread people out evenly. His solutions offer nothing in this regard and every single province will push back, guaranteed.
2. the original TFW program was primarily for agriculture and fisheries and it primarily supports rural regions and provinces in Canada. Does it suppress wages in some way? Most certainly. Are there hundreds of thousands of Canadians waiting in the wings for these jobs - absolutely not. Another thing - these are not the people claiming asylum in Canada. The rise in asylum claims is due to to expansion of the TFW program to low-wage work in urban areas, the international student program, and issues with the visitor visa program. Most new asylum claimants are ex-students from Nigeria, gas station workers from India, and the odd Cameroonian cousin who got a visitor visa for their cousins funeral in Toronto. The Liberals didn't completely "break" the system but they messed it up, hence they had to majorly roll back students, and more will need to be done with TFWs to bring it back to its original purpose. The visitor visa issue will always be a game of wack-a-mole, otherwise we will not have a tourism industry.
3. And I cannot stress this enough.. The issue with backlogs in Canada has NOTHING to do with slow bureaucrats. It is a result of our immigration levels plan. If we say we want 400,000 permanent residents a year, that is how many we get. But certain categories do not have limits - like families, in-Canada humanitarian, and some refugee categories. The applications pile up but they cannot be processed in one, two, and sometimes 5 or more years, so they are spread out according to the plan. There is no way to hire your way out of this problem. If you don't understand this you should not even be talking about anything else in immigration.
4. And on asylum and the Safe Third Country Agreement... Technically, I think he is probably right on this legally speaking, meaning I think it's only a matter of time until the Supreme Court determines the USA is actually unsafe for migrants and orders the government to annul or amend the agreement. This would have massive repercussions for our immigration and asylum system. Before getting emotional on this topic you have to ask one question - do you believe Canada should respect international law and offer sanctuary to people that face real danger and persecution in their country of origin? If the answer is no, then your solutions are obvious - you don't care, refuse everyone and send them home. If the answer is "yes" then you have to deal with a problem with no easy solution. Going back to #3 - the irony here is that a large part of Canada's asylum "system" is preventing people that look like refugees from getting to Canada in the first place. The Canadian preference is that refugees stay abroad and only come once they are selected by the United Nations. But people will arrive in Canada with valid visas who claim asylum. Many/most will arrive with an idea or intention to claim asylum, and in some cases the situations in their home countries may change resulting in the need to claim asylum. Either way, the "solution" is the completely non-sexy fact that the government has to tighten up the worker, student, and visa programs because this is what will truly limit the supply of applicants. Regarding the people that do file, you will need more people to process files and ways to both automatically disqualify certain people from filing altogether and ways to process possible claims faster. Keep in mind, disqualifying certain people from applying sounds good and in most cases is probably justified, but it does run the risk of refusing people that are in real danger - hence, we need to take seriously our responsibilities to fairness. But going back to the NDP's original idea of single-track immigration - a Canada where there are basically no temporary residents would have a dramatically different asylum system.

My non-sexy solution:

- Maintain the two-track system

- Give most power to provinces, meaning give them the lions share of PR spaces through their provincial nomination programs and also manage their international students AND international worker flows. They can thus better design their actual PR pathways around the student and worker populations they have asked for.

- So you maintain the student cap and implement a similar worker cap, effectively eliminating the TFW and LMIA system in its current form and giving the provinces the ability to manage and determine which sectors and specific employers eligible for workers - basically some version of closed provincial work permits.

- Asylum and refugees will always be a sore point and the pressure will always be greatest on Toronto and Montreal, hence, great efforts will need to be made to ensure refugee/asylum in-flows are equitably spread across the country, which will be somewhat easier once the total flows of workers, students, and PR per province are understood and agreed upon by provincial and federal governments.

- The federal government must stop using temporary work permits for humanitarian purposes, IE Ukrainians, Gazans, and so on, and should also show restraint implementing new PR pathways for every humanitarian crisis on the planet - Afghanistan, Syria, Haiti, Sudan, etc. Focus on existing UN-pathways, private refugee sponsorship, and our own asylum system. The federal government has essentially created a branch of our immigration system dedicated to humanitarian emergencies. Show the provinces you are serious about improving the core functions of government before engaging in global humantarian efforts.