A “perfect storm” of factors including the 2018 election, inefficient practices and the COVID pandemic has left Ontario’s trouble-plagued Landlord and Tenant Board (LTB) “fundamentally failing” to provide swift justice, the province’s ombudsman says.
In a lengthy report published Thursday, Paul Dubé made 61 recommendations to address a backlog of cases at the tribunal that has ballooned to more than 38,000 applications.
“Where once it took the Board a matter of days to schedule hearings, it now takes an average of seven to eight months,” Dubé noted.
“As of February 2023, landlord applications were generally being scheduled for hearing within six to nine months of receipt,
