Douglas Todd: Is B.C. immigration program a back door for millionaire house buyers?

How did it come to pass that thousands of people who came to Metro Vancouver through a provincial immigration scheme bought pricey houses?
A Statistics Canada report shows 2,370 people who recently arrived in B.C. through a provincial immigration program have bought single-family houses worth an average of $2.38 million in Metro Vancouver, which is $800,000 above the norm for Canadian-born house buyers.
It’s a startling figure, in part because politicians often trumpet how the relatively s