Canadian Condo Craze will Collapse onto Taxpayers
Diane Francis
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Posted 07.03.2012
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Canada Business
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Conventional wisdom is that this is the market at work. This is not the market at work. This is manipulation of a government system of open-ended mortgage insurance that is poorly supervised. What is going on here is a deluge of hot money from abroad that is creating an artificial, and potentially dangerous real estate bubble.