If the Chinese Market Isn't Interested-Neither is Westbank

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This pretty appalling and just h=shows all the smokescreen thrown up by Ian Gillespie for the hypocrisy that it is:

Vancouver developer Westbank is only interested in projects that are wanted in China, the marketing director of the company has admitted.

“It’s a hindrance that I don’t speak Mandarin for example, in sales,” Westbank’s Director of Marketing Michael Braun says on a blog post on the company’s website[1]. “And there is always the fear, what if the China market blows up? But right now I have a rule when we talk about projects if the Chinese market doesn’t want it, I have no interest in it.”

Westbank and its owner Ian Gillespie have come under heavy criticism recently for catering to wealthy foreign buyers at the expense of taxpaying locals — a criticism that Braun has previously denied.

“Our goal with this project is to get people who are committed to the community – versus an investor-style product,” Westbank marketing director Michael Braun told The Globe and The Mail last March[2]....

https://thinkpol.ca/2018/05/02/chine...ver-developer/