62% of the roughly 270K immigrants currently coming to Canada each year are selected because they already have key skills.  They arrive educated.  The top 3 sources of our current immigrants are:  Philippines (#1) India (#2) China (#3),  These skill qualified, economic immigrants then sponsor an additional 24% of our immigrants. Such sponsored immigrants remain the financial responsibility of the sponsor for some 10 years - so no welfare burden.

Source Immigration Canada