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City of Toronto by-law imposing emergency accommodation fees on landlords for displaced tenants quashed for illegality.
The applicant apartment association applied to quash City of Toronto By-laws 1121-2019 and 1750-2019, which required apartment owners to provide emergency accommodations to displaced tenants and imposed a full cost recovery fee on landlords if the City provided those services.
The court held that the City lacked the legislative authority to require landlords to provide emergency social services regardless of the cause of the building becoming uninhabitable.
The court quashed the specific provisions imposing the fee and the requirement to provide emergency social services, while upholding the remainder of the by-laws.
Motion for stay of judgment removing municipal councillor from office pending appeal dismissed.
The moving party, a municipal councillor, sought a stay pending her appeal of a judgment that found she violated the Municipal Conflict of Interest Act and declared her council seat vacant.
The court applied the three-part test for a stay pending appeal.
While finding a serious issue to be tried, the court found no irreparable harm because it ordered the municipality not to fill the vacancy pending the appeal.
The balance of convenience favoured the public interest in municipal integrity, and the motion for a stay was dismissed.
