so, what is the right way to interpret the green party's pledges on immigration?

it's a commitment to canada's ongoing existence as a colonial state. that's how you work this out - the message that they're broadcasting is that the colonial process remains paramount, that immigration takes priority over degrowth, and that the state will carry on, as before.

and, depending on which angle you're approaching it from, you can either interpret that as the greens being less scary than you thought, or them essentially being another status-quo neo-liberal party that's carrying on with the process of settler colonialism like the rest of them.

a serious, long-term environmental strategy is going to have to get the growth rate down, and that's going to mean accepting relatively low levels of population density. a solution to this comes when the rest of the world looks like canada, not when canada looks like the rest of the world.

the liberals are supposed to do better than this.