Your directive is based on the false premise that government must do things that are popular with the public.

Governments do things all the time that are unpopular with the public. Income tax rates are too high, yell the public, and taxes on alcohol are way too high in Canada, yell the public. And yet we have the tax rates unchanged.

Your directive is also based on the unproven assumption that, for example, most people in BC want house prices in Vancouver area to be two million dollars a pop. There is no evidence for your claim. Indeed, these boards have contained many posts from Vancouver area homeowners who want the government to implement policies that will drop house prices. 

In fact, you can find the news reports of polls: "The Angus Reid poll found that 90 per cent of Greater Vancouver residents — about nine in 10 — support the new tax, designed to discourage foreign speculators from driving up housing prices in Metro Vancouver" (CBC report).