Eviction Moratorium (LTB)

Ontario (Attorney General) v. Persons Unknown, 2020 ONCA 541 (CanLII)

[2] On July 6, 2020, the Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Justice granted an order that resulted in the end of the moratorium on residential evictions in Ontario as of July 31, 2020. The moving parties seek to reinstate that moratorium and have commenced proceedings to set aside the July 6, 2020 order.

[3] The moving parties brought a motion for an urgent stay of the July 6, 2020 order until the application to set aside that order could be heard. On August 2, 2020, Myers J. dismissed the motion for the stay. He noted at paras. 32 and 33 of his reasons that balancing “the risk of COVID-19 for the subset of evicted, vulnerable tenants and mortgagors who may end up homeless or in shelters against the economic risk to landlords and mortgagees of a further delay of evictions” reflected policy choices for the government. However, if the matter were to proceed, he directed that one or more case conferences were to be held to determine process and parties.