Some of you Americans might remember Belinda Stronach as the Canadian conservative star who crossed the floor and saved the Liberal government last spring.
Her father is the head of Magna International, a multi billion dollar business. And he is I believe a Liberal too.
Join me on the flip to see what I just heard on the evening news about what he is doing.
The reporter is flying down there with him and his entourage.
He plans to visit a site near Alexandria LA to check it out and see if it suits his purposes. The estimated price of the property is 2 million.
If it does he plans to put mobile homes on the site for 300 families (might be people but I think it is families) and plans to commit to helping get back on their feet for the next five to seven years.
Tell that to any Canuck bashers you run into.
Sorry for the short diary but I thought you'd like to know.
[Update]
Here's the wiki entry on Magna http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_International
I found a story online about it. I'm impressed.
From the article:
Stronach is the founder and chairman of Magna International Inc. and Magna Entrainment Corporation. Displaced by WW2, Stronach arrived in Canada in his teens with $40 in his pocket. On the eve of his 73 rd birthday, he made a commitment that will eventually cost hundreds of millions of dollars to providing immediate housing to 260 refugees and is scouting the Baton Rouge area for 500 - 1000 acres of land on which to build a community to house thousands more.
"We would like to build a small community where we would try to be sponsors for the next five to seven years," he said in an interview with the Toronto Star .
"We would hopefully be able to put in an infrastructure whereby you would create a new life for them, a life of hope, spirit, so that they will be self-supporting and not on welfare. That's the idea."