Hello Machine,

Your post is not based on the reality of the landscape.

You need to ask a simpler question and decide where you stand.

If every millionaire on the planet started bidding tomorrow on houses in Halifax, then within a few years a small house in Halifax would cost seven million dollars. Nearly all of them owned by millionaires with jobs overseas.

The question is: Are you okay with that? Are you okay with local workers with jobs in Halifax no longer being able to afford a house there? 

If you are okay with that, fine, say so, declare that you think houses should be treated as commodities like big twenty-pound bars of gold, only the rich own them.

But if, on the other hand, you think that there is something valuable about a nation preserving affordability of houses for people who actually work in the region, then you are going to have to welcome policies to facilitate that.

Your cheerleading chant about free markets accomplishes nothing.