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. The documents show that for the past 25 years, the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) has known that wealthy new immigrants have been major players in Vancouver’s luxury home market, and government migration programs have fueled systematic tax abuse by allowing wealthy foreign investors to declare refugee-level incomes. The study found that wealthy new immigrants accounted for over 90 percent of luxury home purchases in the metro Vancouver municipalities of Burnaby and Coquitlam, but these buyers often only declared …