You nailed it. You don't need to be in the Canadian real estate to realize that the most people coming to open houses are in fact local Canadians (also from other provinces) looking to move to the warmest part of the country or add another property or two to their portfolio.

The landlords that run the real estate holdings companies are mostly White. They buy up the properties, apartments, condos when they are cheap with the sole purpose of renting them out. Guess who influences local media and politicians. It's not some rich Chinese communist fu er dai they could care less.

The fact is that Canada isn't the all shining socialist paradise that outsiders make out to be. In fact places like Vancouver almost gets a pass when race issues are mentioned because its automatically chalked up as a "social liberal progressive city" compared to other American cities that often get thrown into the "shithole conservative counties"