Dermod Travis: Knee-Jerk Policies Will Not Cool B.C.'s Red-Hot Housing Market

For months the government had been in denial over the issue: overblown, isolated to a few neighbourhoods, it said. Since then its approach has gone from "the market will correct itself," to a "bold action plan," to legislating a retroactive 15 per cent tax on foreign ownership.

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