Small landlord org asks province to allow 'straightforward' evictions without hearings
EDITOR’S NOTE: This article originally appeared on The Trillium, a new Village Media website devoted to covering provincial politics at Queen’s Park.A lobby group representing small landlords protested outside Queen's Park on Monday, calling for easier evictions and harsher penalties for misbehaving tenants — demands that one tenant advocate said would backfire with even longer delays.
Small Ownership Landlords Ontario , which organized the protest, has registered to lobby the province. It's asking for the government to allow the LTB to adjudicate "straightforward" cases like nonpayment of rent or landlords needing their property for personal use, without actually hearing them. SOLO Vice-Chair Rose Marie said getting rid of hearings for nonpayment cases would "change behaviour" by showing tenants that they can't get away with "loopholes" like months-long eviction hearing delays.
Ontario has already experimented with no-hearing evictions and it didn't work, said Douglas Kwan, the director of advocacy and legal services at the Advocacy Centre for Tenants Ontario. "And so we feel that any move toward a process that brings us back to those old days would have a similar outcome," he said.
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