How would anybody know which buyer is a foreign buyer in Ontario?  Ontario doesn't even require or track whether buyers are foreigners or Canadian citizens.  We're flying blind when it comes to real estate.  How can a government make an informed decision on housing and real estate when it is missing such a key piece of information?

As far as I am concerned, housing ownership needs to be restricted to citizens of this country.  Who else in this country would be the most affected by the cost of housing?  Not foreigners, who have short term speculative interests in our country

For decades we have heard in the news about municipalities across the country needing help with affordable housing?  We see different levels of government each putting more and more taxpayer money into building affordable housing.  This just becomes a crazy cycle of beggaring our government

Government needs to stop treating homes as a global commodity.  Countries around the world who have wised up a long time ago