Why, It's Like People Soured On the Idea of Handing Over Sale Profits to the Government

This:

A Twitter storm by homeowners prompted CMHC to quietly pull funding for federal research on a home equity tax. CEO Evan Siddall emailed the private notice to staff while publicly blaming Blacklock’s for “irresponsible reporting” in disclosing the study in the first place: “Whose bright idea was this?”

They'll try again.

Just wait and watch.