Human Resources committee  Yes. Statistics Canada surveyed tenants in 2021. They found that 7% of tenants had been evicted at some point in their lifetimes. Now, assuming that the average tenancy experience is 10 years—for many people, it's 20 or 30 or 40 years—that means seven-tenths of 1% of tenants are

Human Resources committee  A large landlord, a corporation, can claim personal use. They don't sell single units, typically. It's smaller investors. Believe me, I represent smaller investors too, and I want them to have the right to use their properties as they wish, but that's a question for provincial la

Human Resources committee  No, it must be something I said.

Human Resources committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I am the president of the Canadian Federation of Apartment Associations. CFAA represents 15,000 owners and managers of over 1.5 million rental homes across Canada, through 13 member associations and direct memberships. My main professional qualifications

Health committee  Yes, it would be an improvement if that could be done. Again, that would be a way for the demand to be met by.... Landlords are certainly in this business. We provide housing for people, and we do it very cost effectively. But the motivating factor is, frankly, to make money. I

Health committee  With added second-hand smoke as kind of an amenity.

Health committee  Yes, it's certainly a concern. One of our suggestions today is to attempt to achieve a compromise in which a landlord's consent is required, and with different levels, which the provinces could choose, of ability to refuse or not refuse consent. That would allow us to take into

Health committee  Yes. She could certainly address the issue herself, but that takes a certain fortitude to do. She can, I think, in most of the provinces go to the landlord and say, “Look, the neighbour's interfering with me; will you please do something about it?”

Health committee  But that's when it gets into whether the landlord has the right, because remember that 90%—well, hell, it's 99% right now—of leases do not prohibit marijuana smoking or marijuana growing. They didn't have to, because it was in the law.

Health committee  Effectively, the legal regime of today is going to be turned on its head. Gradually landlords can take it back through a lease prohibition, but again in Ontario and largely in Quebec, you cannot impose a new lease term on a tenant. So there will be all those grandfathered leases

Health committee  As to the second question, no. I don't think Ontario has focused on this either. People tend not to get this distinction between rental dwellings with these other competing interests and detached homes. As to the first question, the question of damage, yes, Ottawa, for example, h

Health committee  Absolutely.

Health committee  Typically it's a question of this test of substantial interference with reasonable enjoyment. There has to be not just an interference with the other person's enjoyment, but a substantial interference. Medical problems will meet that test. If someone has asthma, someone's affecte

Health committee  Well, it seems to me that the federal government is legislating in this area, in part because of its power over criminal law. I realize that with respect to criminal procedure, there are differences in the different provinces, but with respect to criminal law, for the most part,

Health committee  I see. Well, in that respect that might be a partial solution. Certainly, as I understand it, the provinces, under their power with respect to civil property and civil rights, could in fact ban the home production. They could ban various forms of cultivation. They're being give