Turkey, which is next to the conflict in Syria and Iraq, took in about a million refugees last year. Even when you look at it by population, Turkey has taken in 30 times more refugees than Canada. And they only ranked 7th last year.

So what is Harper talking about? He seems to be looking at "resettled" refugees. Resettlement is when a refugee is transferred from an asylum country to a new state that is allowing them to permanently settle.

So a refugee who takes asylum in Turkey would not count. But if that person then moves to Canada, they would be considered as resettled. This dataset captures only 103,800 people out of the almost 60 million refugees in the world.

Even then, Canada is not first. Last year Australia had a resettlement rate of .5 people per 1,000, beating Canada's .35 per 1,000, according to the United Nations.

The United States had the most by volume, taking in almost three quarters of resettled immigrants.

But even this is not giving the full picture. Germany appears nowhere on the list despite taking in many times more refugees than Canada this year. That's because of a quirk of classification.

Germany is letting in tens of thousands of refugees as "humanitarian admissions" and will allow them to apply for asylum. That falls into a different category.