As an economic immigrant who is privileged it is easy to ridicule and undermine refugees. If you read any refugee case you will know that leaving their country is a matter of life and death. Refugees have to demonstrate the following or more to claim refugee status and years of waiting before their file is approved.
- torture
- risk to their life
- risk of cruel and unusual treatment or punishment
Many refugees die while trying to escape their country and the prevailing conditions there. Just because we don't read refugee issues and the backlogs, we make judgments on it. See
https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/refugees.html
Also, when an individual claims refugee status, they have to wait for their case to be heard, approved and their PR status approved before they can be reunified with their family, which takes years and during this time refugees cannot travel.
Also, the Refugee law is not a Canadian law, it is an internal law and all countries who are signatory to the 1951 Refugee Convention and its 1967 Protocol are obligated to enforce it. If you chose Canada as your choice to live, which is one of the countries that accepts more refugees than any other country, and also is committed to its international obligations, be it climate or fight against terrorism, you should be proud of it rather than being cynical about it.
Also, IRCC has clarified refugee applications do not delay immigration applications.
As regards COVID, as per the lately modelling Canada could see close to 15K deaths by Christmas Day.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/canada-could-see-close-to-15k-deaths-by-christmas-day-modelling-1.5227076
You have all rights to be cynical and criticize the system, but please don't do it at the expense of refugees. Apart from refugees there are student visas, daily reunifications visas and other visas that continue to be processed and they are landing in Canada.
At the end, you are entitled to your views.