Terminating the Canadian programme is not Canada’s misfortune. It’s Canada’s saving grace. They’ve finally worked out what many here could see already – commodifying and commercialising citizenship doesn’t pay.

Those investors still had to reside in Canada for several years and then jump through all the hoops of the citizenship test before being granted citizenship.

Here, they ‘invest,’ live here for a year (nudge, nudge, wink, wink) and hey presto they are Maltese citizens.

It’s Tunisia all over again. Muscat seeing the misfortune of others as his own gain without stopping to think about why the other is in that situation.

In Muscat’s twisted reasoning, this is probably good news for Malta, because they can now turn to our cash for citizenship scheme.

Kexxun dahlitilna Manwel hi.

Note, the “citizenship test” – not citizenship as of right.

Hence, there is genuine ties between all applicants because of their 1095 days physical presence, participation in community lives, driving the economy of the country out of their daily needs, housing, transportation, etc, and most importantly, passing a language test and knowledge (history, culture, politics) test about the country which they are applying to become a citizen of.

This is what we will be saying here in a couple of years time.