Canada Revenue Agency Discloses Long-Withheld Documents Linking High BC Home Prices to Millionaire Migrations

The downtown Vancouver skyline is seen at sunset, as houses line a hillside in Burnaby, B.C., on April 17, 2021. The Canadian Press/Darryl Dyck

A secret study that connects high home prices in Vancouver to millionaire migration and possible tax cheating has finally been disclosed by the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA)—five years after a freedom-of-information request was made.

The access to information and privacy (ATIP) request was made by the South China Morning Post on Aug. 30, 2016, and received a response five years later, on Aug. 17, 2021. The CRA’s ATIP response provided an 85-page pdf document on DVD.