First, we are about 41 million people and every year we welcome about half a million new people to freedom and safety. That's about 1.2%. About 300 000 of these come to us in the economic immigrant category who are decidedly able to take care of themselves or they wouldn't be to immigrate so. A bit more than 100 000 of them are coming as family, 70-75 000 come as refugee and about 10 000 come as Humanitarian / Compassionate other. I always thought a nation as rich as ours should welcome a lot more refugees.

Source: https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/ne...

Cheers from a not-so-recent Canadian immigrant: I landed on September 1, 2008 and became a citizen in 2016.