(Québec) The Coalition avenir Québec (CAQ) finally tabled its housing bill on the last day of the parliamentary session.
Clause F allows owners of new dwellings to raise rents without being subject to the scale of the Tribunal administratif du logement. If the bill is adopted, the owner of such dwellings will have to indicate in the lease the maximum amount of rent for the next five years.
Also, when a tenant receives an eviction notice and does not respond before the deadline, it will be considered, by default, that he has refused it.
In the case of repossession or eviction, a tenant could be compensated if the landlord acted in bad faith.
Québec solidaire has continued to hound the government to take action on housing.
Just before the tabling of the bill, the spokesperson for solidarity, Manon Massé, said she was shocked by the way the CAQ handled this file.
“To table it on the last day of the parliamentary session is to send the signal that it is not important for them,” she said.