This whole sorted story does go back to 2001. 
According to Kim Marsh, a 25 year RCMP member and former head of a money laundering and organized crime unit, resources were taken from those units to go towards terrorism after 9/11.
Probably not coincidentally, but Vancouver's housing prices took off a few months later...going from a sagging market...doubling by 2006...increasing by 500% by 2015.
Google 'kim marsh rcmp 9/11'