Not just in job growth, but in getting to the bottom of what has been   
   crippling the housing market - and by extension - investment in the lower   
   mainland.  Some companies were reluctant to headquarter in an area where their   
   employees would have had to pay    
   rocketing rent prices.  Some workers had even moved away.  The NDP government,   
   under the stewardship of John Horgan and his hard-working ministers, have   
   turned things around already - only two years into their mandate.   
      
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   They've cracked the money-laundering being done by the Chinese through   
   casinos, horse-racing and luxury car and yacht sales.     
      
   Already house prices are down more than 20% in most areas and the rental   
   market just took in a great gulp air.  Landlords have been forced to lower   
   rent prices and there are so many units now available that there are offers to   
   pay for a tenant to move in,   
    including the costs of packing for the move.   
      
   But the rest of the country had better take notice that the money laundering   
   was not confined to British Columbia alone  . . . . apparently the $7.5   
   BILLION that was laundered in just the last year, 2018, ranked BC *fourth* for   
   the amount of money being    
   laundered in Canada . . . . .   
   ___________   
      
   According to Prof. Maloney’s report, commissioned by the Finance Minister to   
   examine the role of financial regulations, B.C. ranks fourth among Canada’s   
   regions for the amount of dirty money being laundered, behind Alberta, Ontario   
   and the Prairies.    
   The total amount of money laundered in Canada last year, her task force   
   estimates, exceeds $40-billion.   
   ___________   
      
   So, if you're not  fortunate enough to have a New Democrat government in power   
   in your province, you might want to get one pretty damned quickly.  Because it   
   seems that rightwing governments have a tendency to 'ignore the crime to make   
   the dime'.  And if    
   you have a street drug problem, you have an extension of money laundering   
   crime.     
      
   https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-money-laundering-   
   n-bcs-real-estate-market-inflated-home-prices/   
      
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