It is a risk free option. The Chinese income isn't real. You can't meaningfully garnish the wages of a part time casino dealer. They have no other assets to cover the potential shortfall.
You assume these are poor people, other assume they're quite wealthy and laundering untaxed income into assets in .ca. If the latter, they may even have a proportionate pile of assets to seize locally. I betcha you could restate your point to come across a little less jingoistic.
It's entirely plausible that you're not on the moral high ground you think you are, calling other commenters jingoistic because you didn't read the article is prime example.