The Landlord Tenant Board at 255 Albert St. in Ottawa has had to delay and even cancel hearing because of a lack of adjudicators.
In a new report, Tribunal Watch Ontario says there were 53,000 unresolved cases at the Landlord and Tenant Board as of March 2023, impacting at least one million Ontarians. A group that keeps tabs on Ontario's tribunals is speaking out about a backlog at the Landlord and Tenant Board .
Laird, a retired human rights lawyer, said the board used to handle about 80,000 applications a year but has been handling fewer applications every year since the Progressive Conservatives formed government in 2018. "The Ministry of the Attorney General, Tribunals Ontario and the Landlord and Tenant Board have been working to address the accumulation of active cases before the Board," Natasha Krstajic wrote in an email to CBC News.
According to Laird, more than half of the cases before the board are applications from landlords for arrears of rent. " do have property to rent but they are afraid. So, the solution is to incentivise them by reducing the wait time at the Landlord and Tenant Board."