Toronto Renters Forum
General => General Discussion => Topic started by: fwatts on October 05, 2022, 01:34:18 pm
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Saw this articl on CBC news...
"Ontario's Landlord and Tenant Board has collapsed, expert says"
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ontario-landlord-tenant-board-wait-problems-collapse-1.6605631 (https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ontario-landlord-tenant-board-wait-problems-collapse-1.6605631)
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This is typical landlord biased nonsense from CBC/Pravda. The paid media only runs landlord tenant stories if they're about shedding buckets of crocodile tears from "small" landlords. They always try to make it seem as if poor pitiful "small" landlords are always being ripped off by Evil Tenants. There's never a peep about heinous and criminal behaviour of landlords.
The reality is that over 90% of rental housing stock in Canada is owned by large, profitable and mainly foreign based investment trusts. Even basement apartments in detached homes are bought up by these corporations. Every year they shatter their own profit records. And they're enabled by politicians like Doug Ford who carry out literal wars against renters, whom they view as worthless riffraff who deserve to have their wallets emptied. Destroying the housing tribunal is a deliberate move by Ford, to strip tenants of access to justice. He also defunded the community legal clinics for the same reason.
And the most laughable part of this story is the fact that the rental housing tribunal practices heavy favouritism towards landlords, who only have to wait a few weeks for eviction hearings. They also get quicker access in other matters. Tenants, in the meantime, are forced to put up with harassment, maintenance issues and invasion of their privacy for months, if not years, before they get a hearing. I waited three years for my hearing because the landlord kept coming up with excuses to adjourn. Then when tenants finally get their day in court, the adjudicators, who are all on a first name basis with landlord representatives, are paid to refuse to look at tenant's evidence, bully them and throw their cases out. Landlords for the win, yet again.
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agreed .. IMO .. perhaps dump this LTB and let it all stream thru the Courts .. yes I know the small claims courts are broken as well - but at least you got some teeth to work with as a tenant eh !