Madam,

The comments are preposterously self-interested and the author has no idea what she’s talking about.

By her own admission, she is a second-home owner and is, therefore, miles away from being an impartial/objective voice on the matter.

While I certainly agree that no foreign buyer’s tax should be levied retroactively, it’s incredibly manipulative to suggest that prices wouldn’t drop if all foreigners sold their holdings.

As a former Canadian real estate broker, don’t believe her for a minute that Canada is a bastion of affordable housing.

The CMHC has done little except to commit a taxpayer bailout to banks while they pile Canadians with more debt than almost any nation in history. If you’d like to see house prices skyrocket, just make it easier for young people to get into debt.

The statement “Canada has much more available land for housing development with a much smaller population” is incredibly misleading. Most Canadians, including your author, are unaware that 89 per cent of Canada’s land mass is held by the government as crown land, meaning we can’t buy or build on it. And who wants to live above the Arctic Circle?

It is an abuse of the English language to call herself a “homeowner” when the previous sentence suggests she is, in fact, a landlord willing to “gamble” in Gwynedd. We should almost certainly tax unproductive/parasitic businesses such as overseas landlording (and the banks that finance them) so that local productive businesses can thrive - which is, of course, what drew her there in the first place.

Yours etc,

Jared Brock, Guelph, Ontario and part-time resident in Ceredigion.

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