It appears Ontario Premier Doug Ford is fond of expediting justice when it comes to matters involving the police. The premier recently announced plans to eliminate tuition fees for students entering police collegeHowever, when it comes to getting Ontarians out of dangerous living situations the provincial government has shown far less urgency. Justice isn’t expedited at Ontario’s Landlord and Tenant board: it is delayed, delayed, delayed.
On a human level, that amounts to thousands of people left in limbo in unsafe or untenable living situations. Consider the case of one renter who waited for more than a year for a hearing despite living in a black-mould infested home. Delays hit landlords too, as highlighted by the case of one who was forced to wait several months to evict a tenant facing weapons charges.
The housing crisis narrative in our society often ignores the plight of renters, a reality demonstrated by the facts of the report. According to the ombudsman, tenants wait much longer than landlords for closure at the board with the average landlord filing typically taking 221 days to resolve, compared to 427 days for tenants.
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