text: Just tell us oh trustful and dutiful politicians. What will you do in response to house prices soaring into orbit just like Vancouver? Will you pretend that you have no idea what the causes may be? Will you do like Mayor Gregor Robertson of Vancouver who for years starred into the sky as if searching for a sign in the stars or a glint from the afternoon sun that told him exactly what was happening. Perhaps the Asian names on house buying contracts and the mass outbidding on properties that saw listed houses go for double asking price might have provided a clue? No sir. Speculation continued and only slowed after a decade of abstinence was followed with a foreign buyers tax. And even that is full of exemptions. Greed, more greed and opportunity to make housing into a Swiss bank account will continue until most major Canadian cities, especially the physically attractive ones become affordable to the abysmally wealthy. Nice going politicos!