In Vancouver, according to condo
marketer Bob Rennie, between 60 % and 80 % of all real estate sales in the city's West Side are
now to mainland Chinese, while markets like Calgary and Saskatoon have soared thanks to all the new
oil and potash wealth.
On the contrary the Jewish interest is solely in the marketing of petroleum products and even there it is probably no more than 5 per cent, the chief
marketer being American
Oil of Baltimore, and American
Oil, though still managed by the Blausteins, who founded it, is
now controlled by a Standard of Indiana subsidiary.