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In Canada`s most read paper, the Landlord/Tenant wars continue....
QUOTE Published On Thu Sep 16 2010
New Democrat MPP Cheri DiNovo is pushing for a law forcing landlords to be licensed and their premises inspected for bedbugs, saying Ontario is "doing nothing" to stop the growing scourge of pests.
"The landlord simply doesn`t get their license renewed if they don`t have a bug-free unit," the MPP for Parkdale-High Park said Thursday in proposing a private member`s bill.
"It protects good landlords and calls bad landlords to account."
Landlords would be charged a small fee for each inspection, making the initiative self-funding, DiNovo said.
The Ontario Landlords Association is the accepted official opposition to the Tenant activists. The Star added their comments:QUOTE A group representing landlords who own five units or less—often in the same building where they live themselves—accused DiNovo of "political opportunism" for trying to lump bedbugs in with the larger issue of landlord licensing.
"Let`s focus on the bedbugs first," said Stuart Henderson of the Ontario Landlords` Association, which encourages its members to inspect and thoroughly clean units when tenants leave.
The OLA is fighting anti-landlord legislation and I hope all Ontario landlords join the fight for their own financial interests.
The fight is political: http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/bedbugs/ar...-landlords?bn=1
QUOTE Published On Thu Sep 16 2010
New Democrat MPP Cheri DiNovo is pushing for a law forcing landlords to be licensed and their premises inspected for bedbugs, saying Ontario is "doing nothing" to stop the growing scourge of pests.
"The landlord simply doesn`t get their license renewed if they don`t have a bug-free unit," the MPP for Parkdale-High Park said Thursday in proposing a private member`s bill.
"It protects good landlords and calls bad landlords to account."
Landlords would be charged a small fee for each inspection, making the initiative self-funding, DiNovo said.
The Ontario Landlords Association is the accepted official opposition to the Tenant activists. The Star added their comments:QUOTE A group representing landlords who own five units or less—often in the same building where they live themselves—accused DiNovo of "political opportunism" for trying to lump bedbugs in with the larger issue of landlord licensing.
"Let`s focus on the bedbugs first," said Stuart Henderson of the Ontario Landlords` Association, which encourages its members to inspect and thoroughly clean units when tenants leave.
The OLA is fighting anti-landlord legislation and I hope all Ontario landlords join the fight for their own financial interests.
The fight is political: http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/bedbugs/ar...-landlords?bn=1