text: Here's a stat Doc, courtesy of a recent article in Post Media.
  
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  ..."In 2015 alone, the National Bank of Canada estimated buyers from China poured $13 billion into Metro Vancouver real estate, one third of the total. Vancouver Sun and Province reporter Sam Cooper follows the flow of such money, a portion of which is illicit and often ignored by Canadian officials"...
  
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  One year.  13 billion.