Fearing fury of further reprisals by your office, the Ontario Government and/or the Landlords and Tenants Board (LTB) to the complaining Landlords, it is our firm conviction that legal recourse is available within your system to listen to the misery of brutalized Small Residential Landlords and correct the system as we raise a few enquiries below amidst our ruins;
- While eviction moratorium was lifted a long time ago, why Government empowered tenants are still continuing to stay rent free at Landlords’ costs and government continues to protect a few non paying and destructive tenants in the pretext of Covid-19 fallout and its promise of improvement of broken and inefficient LTB?
- What is the legality behind dumping these non paying tenants on hardworking, tax paying, law abiding landlords? Why the Government is ruthlessly destroying Small Residential Landlords community, denying them their legal rights to self defense; and why does Government think taking away Landlords’ livelihood, health, wealth and property en masse as the best solution for its Housing problem?
- What is government doing to restore its impaired credibility to fair, equal and lawful justice to the Landlords in a so called democracy?
- Who is answerable to the Landlords for entrusting LTB, a broken entity, with its meager resources, unlimited adjudicative authority and no accountability; the legal responsibility to decide the fate of thousands of landlords and Tenants? The result is clearly visible, “Justice delayed is justice denied,” that the Landlords and Tenants cannot get justice in a timely manner. Any unaccountable ENTITY cannot be a part of Legal Decision making. Your News Release of 1 st April 2022 ,” Ontario invests $19 million to help tackle Housing Crisis.” I commend your initiative. But it raises following unanswered questions in the minds of Landlords and Tenants alike as below;
- Both communities believe it is a ploy to raise false hope in the minds of the victims of LTB’s inefficient case management and a lip services for improvement while continuing with the prolong bureaucratic inefficiency.
- Why Landlords have been left unprotected, uncompensated to shelter a few non paying and destructive criminal tenants at Landlords’ cost for months, a very long period, now extending to more than a year? Who will address Landlords’ acute financial hardship, health damage, loss of livelihood, savings and property damages? Why any timely hearing is a distant hope and cannot be prioritized for most affected Landlords? Landlords are becoming homeless, committing suicide owing to your blessings to a few rogue professional and criminal tenants.
- You stated “Ontarians deserve the opportunity to find the right home for them, and government bureaucracy should never stand in the way.” Presumably you addressed the need for the first time home owners. But your release did not address the following;
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- the share of $19 Million for LTB to improve their operational efficiency;
- your action plan, timeline, resources and reporting mechanism to your stakeholders (suffering Landlords and Tenants) for accelerated resolution to eliminate existing backlog; since your press release in April 2022 the hearing delay is extended from 3-5 months.to 7-8 months. Practically the entire process is taking over 12-15 months now and continue to extend. We have Landlord who is living in extreme fear of his house burned down, imminent harm to tenants themselves and his Shortened hearing is scheduled after 50 days of granting. Shouldn’t it receive urgent priority and hearing scheduled in days. Sir, your system is failing the Landlords more than the rogue tenants.
- You mentioned “Impartial Adjudicators,” Current RTA2006, Bill 184 are the Tenant Protection Act. It does not address the Landlords’ Protection. Lawyers community suggested that Ontario Government and LTB have immunity from prosecution and damage claim. Therefore, “Impartial” is meaningless to the Landlords, when the government and LTB cannot be held accountable and they are above Law?
- What is the Government’s plan to prevent current Landlords from becoming homeless by Government policy to protect the Tenants by transferring its responsibility to the current helpless Landlords. Is this legal? If you consider its LAW, it is time to change it. The fundamental element of legality is ‘Lawful Intension.’ Harming Landlords to protect Tenants cannot be LAW. But you are claiming to be above Law?
- How the hapless small residential Landlords will meet the expenses to maintain Government protected non paying tenants to save their property and the dangerous tenants who are destroying landlords’ Properties, while you are not bound by any schedule?
- How relevant and lawful is the government’s and /or LTB’s immunity from ‘prosecution and damage claim’ under the parliamentary democracy where elected representatives are not answerable to the electorates whose rights to self defense have been denied and silenced; where Law and its practitioners cannot be challenged and society is silenced from evolving to a better community?
Sir, please understand Landlords’ pain. How long will you punish the Small Residential Landlords by dumping the responsibility of rogue tenants, who live rent free, damage the property, destroy the livelihood, health, peace and family life of the law abiding, tax paying, hard working Landlords. SIR THEY ARE GOVERNMENT’S RESPONSIBILITY NOT LANDLORDS’.
A suffering Ontario small landlord
