Good point @Blakdann.

But she did admit at one point that she had been unaware of the shadow flipping and contract assignment problems, and also "did not realize how wildly speculative Vancouver’s market had become until an explosion of public outrage earlier this year."

Perhaps she really did not  know what was going on, but she  should have known. It had been bandied about online and in media outlets like the SCMP so often and for so long it was common knowledge, and to someone in the industry it would have been insider knowledge too.

Or she may have known and for whatever reason (political interference and  pressure, self interest, job preservation) chose not to  acknowledge it, or even make recommendations. And that is sadder still.