text: Don't forget she also just eliminated the 15% tax for foreign students.  Now if you are in Canada for a course as short as six months, yes six months, you can buy real estate and avoid the tax.
  
  But not just a condo to live in (as Australia allows).  Oh no, a "student" can buy a multi million dollar mansion (or three) or an entire block of apartments.
  
  So what was up with that, other than bowing to pressure from vested real estate interests, like New Coast, who market heavily in China.