Conversations That Matter: Unintended harm for the foreign buyers tax

Walk down Vancouver’s Robson Street these days and you’ll see store after store papered over. The businesses that used to occupy the spaces are gone. The shops have “For Lease” signs on them.
Those businesses shut down because the cost of rent has skyrocketed. An expert blames, in part, the province’s foreign buyer’s tax on residential properties.
That “go home” tax didn’t make foreigners seriously intending to invest in V