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>>eswat+(OP)
To maybe offer a different perspective: I think the Canadian mortgages linked to Chinese accounts will likely all be paid. What may be happening is that there is a lot of underground chinese financial activity that is not recorded in Canada and part of this 'network' is utilized to get money out of china.

>>Sunlig+bn
It's still fraud

>>silent+vn
You can label it however you want, if both the lender and borrower are willing participants, it will be difficult to prevent this from happening.

Like mentioned in the article, often times the material is very obviously suspicious and banks probably know this and still turn a blind eye to it because these borrowers are low risk and much less sensitive to the high/rising interest rates of today...

>>jabban+0p
> if both the lender and borrower are willing participants

Eventually this behavior goes overboard and everything crashes. In the meantime, law-abiding people are screwed by the bubble. Then they are made to pay for the clean up.

Fraud is costly, and rationalizing it contributes to the problem.

>>topspi+eA
But the "fraud" is slowing the bubble. Without capita controls, PRC buyers would operate like any other international buyer, except there would be a shit load more of them who would do more cash purchases and outbit everyone else. This fraud to circumvent capital controls is why wealthy PRC buyers who liquidated their extra multi million dollar tier1 units only bought 1 house in Canada instead of 3.