Foreign Buyers' Tax discrimination and unconstitutional limits on experts in ICBC cases

Canada, and British Columbia, have a very unfortunate history of racist legislation intended to restrict Chinese immigration. This includes the Chinese Immigration Act (1885), which imposed a head tax, the Opium Act (1908) which was passed following anti-Asian riots in 1907 that involved destruction in Vancouver’s Chinatown as well as Japanese neighbourhoods, and the Chinese Immigration Act (1923) which banned new Chinese immigration all together. It’s in this historical context that 20...