[WBC]

I think that the term foreigners implies people with no formal links with Canada deciding to buy property in Vancouver for no good reason other then their personal whim. Those people are certainly low % and irrelevant.

What everybody is talking about is people with PR status or faux citizenship status that are living elsewhere. And it is not just Mainland Chinese we are talking about. The last time there was a crisis in Lebanon it turned out there are 10s of thousands of "Canadians" living there that Canada had a constitutional requirement to rescue at a great expense. There are also born Canadians who live God knows where and then come running home when they need healthcare.

And at the end of the day this is not a jail - live where ever the hell you want - but declare and pay your taxes in Canada (which is not that big of a hardship - you just pay the difference) and then I would call that fair