All the fuss about a foreign buyers tax misses the point.  Foreign buyers from China, and other places, know that they can move here, buy a house or three, drop a baby or enroll a teenager in school, and stay forever.  All this on a ten-year visa, or under an easily duped immigrant investor program.  When the visa run out, the baby grows up, or the "business" goes under, a twerp like Trudeau will not kick them out, and they know it.  We need to allow long-term entry to real  immigrants only, not "visitors." And we need to select immigrants (from all over) based on skills (+ language), not money.  Nobody knows how many are living here, having bypassed the normal entry process.  What fraction have bought property, at what prices?  If we shut down these loopholes, and limit long-term entry to actual legal immigrants, a large part of the incentive to buy property vanishes.  The Globe needs to do its job and report the numbers - how many, from where, beyond our stated immigration targets?