[foogazi]

Is that why they have not closed the loophole or are you speculating?

Weren’t they talking about taxing vacant properties in Vancouver recently? Was there social media backlash?

[mistermann]

There were significant quantities of racism accusations in social and mainstream media, as there also had been for years during the money laundering in casinos debacle, that most politicians and right thinking news reporters also wouldn't touch.

Who knows what's really true, but there sure seem to be a lot of correlative coincidences, with similar stories in many different countries.