Stephen Bigsby: The NDP's 'speculation tax' vs. the 'unfair' status quo a false choice

 In an April 5 opinion piece published in this paper, SFU assistant professor Josh Gordon argued that the NDP government’s revised Speculation Tax was “essential for housing affordability” in B.C.’s main urban centres.
He went on to write: “If critics of the Speculation Tax want to keep up their opposition, they must now defend the status quo. And the status quo is hard to defend.”
According to Gordon, the changes made by the government on March 26 to the