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“We’re all going to require transparency reports and fairly elaborate, written documentation between adult child and mom and dad. These are going to require more time and more money.”
Usher supports the registry and was part of the panel that recommended the registry and other changes to B.C. real estate regulations.
“All of this information is going to be available to taxation authorities, police and government agencies, the public to some degree, a portion will be publicly searchable starting next year,” he said. “These are all trade-offs.”
“It’s being done with good intention, with the best of ideas, but unless we, for example, properly fund and coordinate investigative agencies, all we’ve done is created a very expensive, massive database.”
With a file from The Canadian Press
