Opinion Martin Regg Cohn: Doug Ford’s blunders have made victims of landlords and tenants alike
, yet the problem has received relatively little media coverage or opposition attention. Given the outsized impact on people’s lives or life savings ― the homes they live in, the properties they depend on ― we ignore it at our peril, lest it leave many more Ontarians without recourse if they face eviction without grounds.
But the tribunal turned into a time bomb until, belatedly, the government got the message. In mid-pandemic, well before the ombudsman delivered his damning verdict, the Tories started to hear from raging landlords that the situation was out of control. The Tories have never fully accounted for their thoughtlessness. The ombudsman quotes nameless officials implying that this was merely a matter of transitional troubles between Liberal and Progressive Conservative governments, but that explanation strains credulity.
By late last year, landlords had to wait nearly 342 days ― almost a full year ― to evict a tenant for legitimate reasons . Tenants had to wait even longer ― 469 days on average ― for redress over rights violations; maintenance complaints took 433 days; for a bad-faith eviction, the wait time was 336 days.
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