Canada

Superior Education Dept: Greece's calamity may be Canada's opportunity, according to Vancouver Sun. By teaching its young people English well and providing many of them with a heavily subsidized superior education, the hope was that Greece would become more internationally competitive. What it has done instead is prepare an entire generation to succeed abroad and it was never Greece's intent, but it has inadvertently provided a generation of talented young Greeks with the means to escape from the country's rapidly shrinking economy. Ottawa intends to take in 250,000 immigrants this year, with plans for a much stronger focus on those who speak English or French well and who have higher educations from recognized schools. In doing this, Canada is following the lead of Australia, which has been targeting similar people for several years. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.