Stronach builds 'Canadaville'

[Canadian Socialist]

Evacuees moving into Louisiana social experiment
150 raise food for magnate's Florida racetrack patrons

TIM HARPER
WASHINGTON BUREAU

PUNTA GORDA, Fla.—A bold social experiment by Canadian auto parts magnate Frank Stronach is about to enter a second, more challenging phase.

After airlifting close to 300 Hurricane Katrina evacuees to his Palm Meadows racetrack, Stronach is now in the process of moving about 150 of them back to Louisiana, where he has purchased 369 hectares of land in Simmesport. The parcel will accommodate 75 mobile homes, Black Angus cattle, catfish and crawfish ponds, pecan plantations and chickens and pigs that will be raised by hurricane victims.

The output from this "holistic farming'' experience will end up on the plates of patrons at Stronach's Gulfstream Park in Palm Beach, Fla., if this experiment works.

"This is no FEMA Village,'' says Dennis Mills, the former Liberal MP who is helping "Canadaville'' take root.
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Not sure what I think of this... my first reaction is "yaaah". What do you guys think?

[Ruby Romaine]

1. Belinda's daddy?

[Canadian Socialist]

2. Yes n/t

[Ruby Romaine]

4. Can we trade? I'll take your Conservatives for our Republicans any day!

[applegrove]

5. Belinda is now a Liberal - she was disgusted with the way in which

the Conservatives in Canada were willing to help inflame the Quebec Independance movement...in order to get power.

I love the way many of our priviledged in Canada are so connected with community and so proud of health care and the like. Indeed - many Canadian doctors & professionals are moving back from the States. Because they are disgusted. Brain drain is reversing.

Don't know about this. Social experiments always make me woozy. But hell - a chance to grow your kids up in the outdoors? How could that be bad?

[Spazito]

3. Stronach is doing a good thing, imo

He used his company aircraft to evacuate people and house them in Florida as well as donating cash. With his additional aid of establishing 'Canadaville', not keen on that name tho, he is putting his money where his mouth is unlike a lot of repubs as shown in the Senate re aid to Louisiana.