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Sure, the RRSP savings got wiped out, but she now owns (presumably) at least a couple million in free and clear real estate that her parents previously owned (hence the capital gains tax) which she isn't forced to sell because the taxes and probably any mortgage are fully paid so... what's the issue? Enjoy your free houses lady, sorry about your loss, and if you'd rather have cash money instead of the houses, then sell them. They're yours to do with as you please, and you can thank your parents for having enough savings to ensure you got them.

You can't have your cake and eat it too. Parents dying is a sad thing, and it's not supposed to be winning the lottery. The inheritance is not supposed to fully cover your emotional loss or even make you financially whole. Many people don't inherit anything from their parents and their house returns to the housing pool and their children continue to support themselves as they always have, and it's not clear to me that this is in any way an unreasonable expectation to build a society on.

I'm not totally against allowing some limited amount of generational wealth, but people's expectations of it and the entitlement they feel to it are very out of touch.