Starlight Investments, a company that owns and operates 55,000 residential units in properties across five Canadian provinces, registered to lobby the Ontario government to present “ways to help the Ontario government meet their provincial housing targets,” and “address the backlogs at the Landlord and Tenant Board of Ontario.”

The Landlord and Tenant Board (LTB) is a quasi-judicial tribunal that attempts to settle disputes between landlords and their tenants. Veronica Spada, a spokesperson for Tribunals Ontario, told the IJF more than 41,000 active cases are waiting to be heard by the LTB. That’s actually a modest decrease from 2023, when more than 50,000 cases were waiting to be heard. The province has taken steps to resolve backlogs at its tribunals, including hiring more staff and adopting new technology, with some success. As of last November, rent non-payment cases took approximately three months to be heard by the tribunal, compared to an average minimum of 10 months at the end of 2023.