text: Hey, columnist, instead of trumpeting a cute-sy quote that you find amusing, in the area of Toronto's increasingly toxic and prohibitively expensive housing market...
  
  ... how about troubling yourself to write up an article diving into the mechanism through which a flood of overseas money is destroying the long-standing Canadian cultural tradition of having local workers buy houses in which to raise their families?
  
  You realize, right, that is what is happening? That we are witnessing the death of a long-standing Canadian cultural tradition? And that the tradition is being killed by a flood of billions of dollars from overseas, first killing the tradition in Vancouver, and then Richmond, and then South Surrey, and then White Rock, and then North Vancouver, and then Burnaby, and now off to Toronto?
  
  I mean, is that funny hah-hah to you? 
  
  I assure you it is not funny hah-hah to young Canadian families with local jobs.