what's really needed is to ban foreign ownership completely; like most countries in this world, in fact; and it IS a provincial issue when the province is in control of land/real estate legislation.  Munis only deal with zoning, pretty much

BC can't control immigration and still suffers under the Quebec Investor IMmigrant Programs importation of money launderers as insta-citizens; Quebec has no problem with that because it's taken for granted such immigrant "citizens" are not sticking around but moving to Vancouver and Toronto.....