The foreign buyers tax should be applied at the federal level to all residential housing in CANADA.  Simply letting each province or municipality apply their own band-aid across the country after the problem has manifested itself is simply spreading the problem across to other regions.  It would be a case of death by a thousand cuts.

Municipalities and cities across the country like to beg provincial and federal governments for help with affordable housing.  Instead of shoveling more government (TAXPAYERS') money into affordable housing, we need a solution which will keep housing affordable for citizens of this country.  Governments building affordable housing is a crazy cycle of beggaring taxpayers.  

Only the citizens of this country have any stake in the betterment of Canada.  Our FEDERAL GOVERNMENT needs to show some courage and implement the foreign buyer's tax across the board in Canada.  Why are we putting our residential properties (homes for citizens) on the global market?