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DRIVING THE WEEK
President Joe Biden speaks after holding a virtual meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Feb. 23. | Evan Vucci/AP Photo
THE BIDEN-TRUDEAU REUNION The PM and the president will meet in person this week for the first time since Biden was elected. Although they’ve made the best of video split-screens and have a bilateral road map to prove it we all know it’s hard to beat real life face time.
by Carlito Pablo on April 20th, 2021 at 9:38 AM 1 of 1 2 of 1
Five years ago, Burnaby resident Raymond Wong launched a parliamentary petition against foreign buyers of Canadian real estate, particularly in Greater Vancouver.
That was on April 8, 2016, a time when foreigners were being blamed for high prices of homes.
Not long after, the government of then B.C. Liberal premier Christy Clark around summer that year announced a foreign buyer tax in Metro Vancouver.
In 2017, after John Horgan and his B.C. NDP assumed power, the tax was increased and its coverage expanded to other regions in the province.
Foreign purchases decreased over the following years, and when the COVID-19 pandemic hit and closed immigration and travel, these dropped to almost zero.