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Well the solution is to clamp down on money laundering and foreign investment that doesn't return an investment in any way that helps anyone in this country isn't it (ie: real estate speculation)? And tax cheats?
But the problem there is... the people making the policies are, more likely than not, significantly politically tied (and this goes for ALL politicians not just the ones in power) to individuals engaging in all those things... they're not going to cut their own dicks off, so they say eat shit to the middle class.
I mean I don't have any secondary properties and neither does my Dad, but it just seems like the wrong people to target... and it's not like a oh poor rich person with 2 homes thing, it's a why aren't you going after the really fuckin crazy ones that are doing the most damage. I wonder if Bell and Bombardier or RBC or CIBC or TD and any other number of Canadian mega corporations paid their fair share of tax last year? Probably not. Individual people in the middle class or upper middle class are a drop in the bucket compared to if they closed off loopholes that those businesses and people of that ilk use.
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