As long as the propertiesSecuring the mortgages are real, someone will scoop in and buy the company outright and the true (much higher) value here will be realized.
What you have to understand is that Canadians will pay their mortgages before anything else. Before their car loan, before their credit card, before their whatever. The mortgages are safe. If lending oracticea were stretched, there is still collateral behind those mortgages and you bet someone will come in and swoop the company up.
They just hired a M&A consultant - of course they are open to selling. And there will be plenty of buyers. By Monday you will start to hear rumblings of a sale. Easiest money to be made.