BYLAWS AND RESOLUTIONS - Scope of enabling statute

Law360 Canada ( June 16, 2021, 5:54 AM EDT) -- Appeal by a landlord from a decision finding that the City’s bylaw regulating evictions by landlords renovating or repairing rental properties was intra vires the City. The bylaw required a renovating or repairing landlord either to enter into a new tenancy agreement with the tenant in respect of a comparable unit in the same building on the same, or better, terms or make other arrangements for the tenant’s temporary accommodation and return at the same rent when the work was complete. The appellant argued the Legislature intended to create an exhaustive scheme to govern rent control and evictions in the Residential Tenancy Act, such that the bylaw was unauthorized by the Community Charter, which required harmonization between provincial and municipal legislation and should be interpreted in a manner that upheld the Legislature’s intent....
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