Could Vancouver's real-estate crash really be down to a new school board policy that supports transgender students?
That's the claim put forward by two school board trustees in the city - and it's one that sent ripples through the Chinese community and had immediate political ramifications.
A recent press conference was held in one of the city's Chinese restaurants by Sophia Woo and Ken Denike, who claimed foreign buyers had become concerned about plans to pass a policy giving gay and transgender students more support.
"We've received calls from senior people in the real-estate industry expressing real concerns about the policy," says Denike.
The trustees say they've been told by parents and realtors that if the policy goes through, Chinese families - who provide much-needed tuition fees to the public-school system - may send their children to other districts or private schools.
What appears to have alarmed some Chinese parents is the issue of gender-neutral toilets.
One father, who refused to give his name, said, "If you have a daughter in school, in the bathroom and another male-female you don't know is right next to her, how do you feel? Is it fair for my daughter to go to the school and maybe a man, maybe a female, goes into the school washroom?"