CMHC in an Access To Information report proposes that cabinet consider a Hong Kong-style tax on real estate speculation to cool housing prices. The tax would be useful, staff wrote in a research paper requested by Social Development Minister Jean-Yves Duclos: ‘While growth in prices has benefited homeowners, this is little comfort for those who aspire to own.’
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