{"id":182014,"date":"2023-09-25T16:57:18","date_gmt":"2023-09-25T20:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=182014"},"modified":"2023-09-25T16:57:18","modified_gmt":"2023-09-25T20:57:18","slug":"bill-31-consultations-see-more-than-lease-transfers-up-for-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/bill-31-consultations-see-more-than-lease-transfers-up-for-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill 31 consultations see more than lease transfers up for debate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Planning and Public Domain Committee Chair S\u00e9bastien Schneeberger closed consultations on housing Bill 31<\/a> this Thursday with the submission of the committee report<\/a> to the National Assembly.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

During three days of consultations over two weeks, committee members heard from interest groups representing landlords and tenants, as well as cities, students, and workers in the province.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In their presentation, the City of Montreal offered a dozen recommendations<\/a> for the bill to better address the housing crisis. These included sustained support on social housing, harsher penalties for fraudulent evictions, more resources for Quebec\u2019s housing tribunal \u2013 and an end to the threat to lease transfers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The threat to lease transfers has been the main source of contention in the bill. Lease transfers were initially enshrined as part of tenants\u2019 right to movement, but are now an important tool to keep rents in the province low.<\/span><\/p>\n

Lease transfers aren't all that's at stake: the bill also touches on matters like evictions, leases, and proceedings at the housing tribunal. <\/span>It\u2019s the changes to representation at the TAL that provoked comment<\/a> from the Barreau du Quebec, which represents lawyers in the province.<\/span><\/p>\n

B\u00e2tonni\u00e8re <\/span>Catherine Claveau approves of the bill\u2019s changes, which broaden the scope of potential representatives at the TAL. But she says the legislation needs tweaks to prevent tenants from potential abuse.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAny representative, other than that of a lawyer or a professional, must be free of charge.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Following the submission of the committee report to the national assembly, Bill 31 will return for close reading by parliamentary commission. If there are any amendments, that\u2019s when the public will start to see them.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Planning and Public Domain Committee Chair S\u00e9bastien Schneeberger closed consultations on housing Bill 31 this Thursday with the submission of the committee report to the National Assembly.\u00a0 During three days of consultations over two weeks, committee members heard from interest groups representing landlords and tenants, as well as cities, students, and workers in the province.\u00a0…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":164,"featured_media":182016,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21655,225],"tags":[30682,29497,12770,19188,30683,29779,29777],"radio":[28325],"origine":[274,1145,260],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182014"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182014"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182360,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182014\/revisions\/182360"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182014"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=182014"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=182014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}