Hello MHB93,

Did you miss articles spelling out the reason there has been such foot-dragging hesitation in probing these matters was that there was a political-correctness fear of being branded as racist? Like the report about the Canada Revenue Agency, "CRA bureaucrats previously FEARED being labelled RACIST if they targeted LOW-INCOME declarers buying real estate “because the vast majority of these cases, involving high real estate values, involve mainland Chinese”?

Look, sorry, but the StatsCan data set being developed, you mention, will doubtlessly be hindered and attenuated by those forces. 

And most of the data points being collected in that StatsCan project, that you allude to, are USELESS. Among them, foreign ownership (USELESS! They only started collecting this just two months ago, and most overseas money over the years is not via "foreigners", it is by investor immigrants and their kids, all Canadians).

INCOME TAX is the smoking gun, sadly not the focus of StatsCan.
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