Quebec solidaire will introduce a bill by the end of the parliamentary session in the hope of ending the possibility of rental housing owners to ban pets in their apartments.
“Allowing people to have a pet in their home is a simple way to take the pressure off tenants at a time when we are experiencing an unprecedented housing crisis,” noted the co-porter on Thursday. -speaker of Québec solidaire, Manon Massé.
Québec solidaire will table a bill by the summer to allow pets in all rental units in the province. #polqc pic.twitter.com/GMfOvZ8NEH
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Currently, a landlord can write in a rental lease that pets are prohibited in their apartments. In the context of a shortage of rental housing in several regions of the province, this situation has the effect of considerably limiting the options available to thousands of tenants looking for a place to live, especially when their income is boundaries.
The opposition party in the National Assembly thus invited the press on Thursday morning to the constituency office of the solidarity deputy Andrés Fontecilla to announce the tabling, by mid-June, of a bill aimed at allowing pets in all accommodations in Quebec. The announcement took place in the presence of two pet dogs and the general manager of the Montreal SPCA, Sophie Gaillard, who supports this initiative.
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