The Tribunal administrative du logement (TAL) has ruled that \u201cno-pets\u201d clauses in leasing violate renters\u2019 rights.<\/p>\n
The administrative court said, in a judgment issued on March 12, that clauses banning renters from owning pets violated Quebec\u2019s Charter of Human of Rights and Freedoms.<\/p>\n
In a decision, the administrative judge Suzzane Gu\u00e9vremont wrote, \u201c[the] general prohibition on keeping an animal in a dwelling [\u2026] constitutes an oppressive and unacceptable intrusion into a person\u2019s family life, within the very place that is the centre of their private life: their home.\u201d<\/p>\n
Gu\u00e9vremont issued the ruling in a dispute between a landlord and a tenant.<\/p>\n
In a statement Monday, the animal rights group Montreal SPCA, which was an intervenor in the case, welcomed TAL\u2019s ruling.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are relieved to know that the tenant in this case will not have to face the heartbreaking choice between keeping a member of their family and having a roof over their head,\u201d said Sophie Gaillard, director of animal advocacy and legal and government affairs, Montreal SPCA.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis decision is a reminder that the law must adapt to the evolution of the values that shape our society, specifically when it comes to our relationship with animals,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n
On average, nearly two animals per day are abandoned for this reason at the Montreal SPCA, according to the group.<\/p>\n
Montreal SPCA had argued that the no-pet clauses infringed on a tenant\u2019s right to privacy set out in section 5 of the Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms, which protects the right to make fundamentally personal and private decisions without undue external influence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tribunal administrative du logement (TAL) has ruled that \u201cno-pets\u201d clauses in leasing violate renters\u2019 rights. The administrative…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":555446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-555445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}