Peter Guy's Argument About Racism in Property Taxes....

[shri]

Restrictive ownership laws will be a veiled form of racism to levy an indirect head tax on Chinese investors. There is simply no way this witchhunt can verify which apartments or homes are empty or how to define vacancies.


Any blame should be cast upon municipal leaders and bureaucrats whose land use and zoning policies have been so developer friendly that it is too late to reverse the city’s blighted landscape.

SO, from what I gather, when the Canadians impose taxes on outsiders.. its racist.

When Hong Kong does the same it is not...

Am I seriously missing something?

Chinese bearing the brunt of Canada’s hypocrisy | South China Morning Post

[Kinch]

No prizes for guessing who's parlayed the fruits of an undoubtedly successful career into Vancouver property holdings, eh Mister Guy?

On any given day, Peter Guy's columns tend to be among the more intelligent and reasonable in the much diminished SCMP. Today, not.

[shri]

Yes - there is definitely something personal and ranty about today's column.

[Skierx]

Any blame should be cast upon municipal leaders and bureaucrats whose land use and zoning policies have been so developer friendly that it is too late to reverse the city’s blighted landscape.

Kind of a pot-kettle situation, no?

[SirNotAppearing]

It was only a few months ago when this Guy was writing about how Canada's First Nations didn't have a claim to the land because their populations were too sparse when Europeans arrived. He's a bit of a dingbat.