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Egyptian billionaire offers to buy an island off Italy or Greece to rehouse refugees
If Greece or Italy sell him an island, Naguib Sawiris, the 10th richest man in Africa, says he will host the migrants and offer them jobs in the new country
Daily Telegraph
Here I wrote about setting up safe havens, like Singapore, for the refugees.
Mr. Sawiris presents a reasonable, exploitable, course of action. The islands of the Med, and in particular the Aegean, have been built, over the millenia, on exactly this type of population movement, and have given rise to some notable island cultures: Cyprus, Crete, Rhodes, Malta....
This is the type of activity that Canada could help the Europeans support and could be a gateway, a controlled gateway, to Canada and Europe - or it could become a destination in and of itself.