The Canadian government (like most other Western governments) is attempting to force population growth through immigration:

Here Comes the Flood: Justin Trudeau's plan to diversify rural Canada with foreign immigrants

In 2019, the Canadian government announced that it is going to import over 1 million racially diverse immigrants between the years 2020 and 2022. They also announced a new immigration initiative called the 'Rural and Northern Immigration Pilot Program', or RNIP. The RNIP is intended to be the solution to something that Canadian government has considered to be a major obstacle to their plans to diversifying the Canadian population: The vast majority of immigrants that come to the country settle in just a few major cities, leaving small cities, towns, and rural areas largely unaffected by mass immigration.

The goal of the Canadian government is to establish populations of non-Whites in select rural areas and small towns by carefully vetting thousands of immigrants to select the ones who are most likely to remain in those communities after gaining permanent residency. It appears that their hope is that these seeds of diversity will attract other immigrants to these areas and other rural parts of Canada over time. Vernon, British Columbia, has admitted that their goal is to attract over 90,000 immigrants to their region by 2028. [Cont...]