Here in metro Vancouver the Northshore News wanted the stats on the  percentage of foreign buyers in the city of West Vancouver.  The BC Liberal government refused to provide the data breakdown - yup refused -  and it took a FOI for the paper to get this information.

Maybe the stats didn't fit the political narrative.  Who knows.

And the stats revealed:

"Foreigners bought almost 24 per cent of West Vancouver real estate sold in the weeks before the province brought in its 15 per cent foreign buyers tax last summer.

That makes West Vancouver’s high-end real estate market an area with one of the highest proportions of foreign real estate sales prior to the imposition of the tax, just behind Richmond, where foreign buyers accounted for 27 per cent of sales volume, and Burnaby, where 24 per cent of sales went to foreigners during the same time period."

Hope you have better luck in Ontario prying info out of the government.