"The sale of such an notable B.C. landmark to a Chinese firm could spark controversy in an area of the country where the sale of real estate to foreign interests has prompted debate".

Wrong. It is not the sale of real estate to "foreign interests" that has prompted debate and backlash.

Instead, it is the sale to OVERSEAS MONEY of real estate that has led to backlash.

The two are not the same, and this paper ought to spell that out.

Look, OVERSEAS MONEY has been flooding into Vancouver from many sources, among them the investor immigrants through the now ended federal program, investor immigrants through the Quebec investor immigrant program, multi-year visa holders, student children of millionaires working overseas, and so on.

STOP calling all that "FOREIGN INTERESTS". To the contrary, many of those folks hold Canadian passports, the students even Canadian birth certificates.

Informed people see that OVERSEAS MONEY is key. Not foreigners. Not foreign interests.

OVERSEAS MONEY.