text: Will that be enough @Chris in Ottawa to offset our relatively low wages, and of course our high and rising housing costs in two of our major urban areas?
  
  There are plenty of businesses in Vancouver (including the tech sector) who are worried because they are having a hard time attracting and retaining the best and brightest because of housing affordability issues.
  
  Perhaps the one big thing the Feds can do to help us compete in attracting skilled immigration, is to stop having working families - including our new PR status immigrants and refugees - compete with the offshore money of non residents and non citizens for housing. 
  
  It's Vancouver that sits atop that list of unaffordability in North America (will Toronto be close behind?), and unlike the USA we don't have a myriad of other large affordable urban areas with the jobs/desirability to attract immigration.