Hello Sanctimonious,

I see in your comments about rights of people to buy property, you left, unaddressed, three interesting questions.

Do you think there is a compelling RIGHT of thousands of multi-millionaire businessmen working in Shanghai and Beijing and Hong Kong and Moscow and Tehran, who have not yet bought detached houses in Vancouver, and who, if asked, claim a laughable 20 grand a year to Ottawa as their worldwide income, TO BUY detached houses in Vancouver in the next five years?

If you see a right there, would you be okay with it if, five years from now, the average price of a house in Vancouver was five million dollars, and if only 35 houses built before 1940 remained in the entire city?

Would you be okay with it if half of Vancouver houses were empty 11 months a year, and if, in the remaining houses, there were parachute families costing the locally employed taxpayers eight thousand dollars a year each in services related to the ministries of health and education?

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