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Re:Canada to ban foreigners from buying homes by Dracophoenix on Friday April 08, 2022 @11:13AM (#30958118)
> Their methods include suing the town at great expense to the taxpayers and floating their own and sympathetic friends into town council.

Those very same people are the taxpayers. They have and should have the right to represent their interests in a court of law. If the town ends up being a victim of it, so be it.

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Re:Canada to ban foreigners from buying homes by elevaet on Saturday April 09, 2022 @01:04AM (#30965391)
Actually funny you should mention that because one of them actually is not a taxpayer in the municipality that she sued (and lost). So no, they are not all taxpayers, but some are, it is true.

Yes, of course they have this right, I don't dispute that. But when a single case like this eats up literally 10% of a small town's yearly budget, and the same small group of people repeatedly behave in this way, I also have the right to call them assholes.

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