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There could also be national versions of B.C.’s property and speculation tax, which attempts to monitor the more extensive foreign ownership that is not tracked by the Canadian Housing Statistics Program. That is, property owned by proxies for foreign nationals and by “satellite families,” whose breadwinners make more than half their income outside the country.
The Canada Revenue Agency could do much more, Yan said, to take part in the kind of inter-bureaucracy information sharing that is supporting B.C.’s speculation tax, which monitors owners not paying their share of Canadian income taxes. “With big data now, there are few excuses for not looking into these loopholes.”
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Pressure is on the B.C. government to reform trespassing laws so the public can gain access to Crown-owned lakes, streams and wilderness.
Environmentalists, lawyers and outdoors groups say B.C. judges have recently made it clear that it’s Victoria’s job to fix illogical laws that allow private property owners to keep anglers and hikers away from publicly owned lakes and rivers because they own the land surrounding the waterways.
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Because B.C. government laws fail to protect the public’s right to travel on private land to get to publicly owned lakes and streams, the Appeal Court judge overruled portions of Justice Joel Groves’ 2018 decision, which had criticized the RCMP and government staff for collaborating over many years with Kroenke’s ranch staff to deny fishers access. Married to a scion of the Walmart family, Stan Kroenke is a developer and owner of multiple sports franchises, He also owns Douglas Lake Ranch near Merritt, as well as larger ranches in the U.S. - Wikimedia Creative Commons The case, which the Nicola Valley Fish and Game Club initially launched in 2013, is one of the most important in B.C. history regarding determining how much right the public has to access scores of lakes and waterways in the province that are surrounded by private land.