> We should be able to do this.

That would require work. Canadians just want to buy real estate, watch it go up 10x, then sell and retire in Mexico.

You're describing something that some Canadians did (and very few still do), but this is not reflective of the vast majority of us. For most Canadians, especially as our economy declines, our extremely expensive homes are more like death sentences for our financial futures. We're not going to profit off of these things—ever—unless decades-long trends rapidly begin to reverse rather than accelerate.