Cogeco’s Audet takes a stand, says Canada can absorb 100,000 refugees per year

MONTREAL – He’s generally not the most outspoken CEO in land, but Cogeco’s Louis Audet made his most political statement yet in a speech to the Board of Trade of Metropolitan Montreal on Thursday and to journalists at a press conference afterward.Audet made use of the speech to publicize a plea to the Canadian government to take in more refugees. Though the new Liberal government has promised to bring in 25,000 by the end of the year — something experts and critics have said would be difficult logistically — Audet said 100,000 a year should be feasible.“It’s not a business...