Ombudsman’s report paints a damning picture or a ‘perfect storm’ of factors that caused the massive backlog at the board after the 2018 provincial election
The long-awaited report from Ontario’s ombudsperson on the causes of “excruciatingly long” delays in administration of justice at the province’s largest tribunal is packed with awful stories of individual hardship for landlords and tenants.
Ombudsman Paul Dube said a “perfect storm” of factors conspired to massively increase the backlog after the 2018 Ontario election, and his office’s latest report, Administrative Justice Delayed, Fairness Denied, has 61 recommendations on how to fix things. The ideas are big and small, some technological some legislative or regulatory, but the conclusion is the LTB and Tribunals Ontario need to move on immediately and stop doing the same old thing. “The Board has proven itself unequipped for the task of reducing its extraordinary backlog of applications,” the report states.
The report is full of personal anecdotes that paint a damning picture, according to the official opposition NDP, but the cold hard numbers are if anything more daunting.Number of months it takes on average to schedule a landlord application.Number of scheduled applications pending at the board in 2019.38,000:Number of tenant applications in the backlog: two date back to 2017, 13 to 2018 and 78 to 2019.
“They [the PC Government] have failed, the problems have gotten worse and tenants and landlords across Ontario are suffering as a result,” said NDP housing critic Jessica Bell.
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