WHEN THE INTEGRITY OF OUR JUSTICE SYSTEM IS COMPROMISED . . . . . . ALL IS LOST
JUSTICE DEFINED: The quality of being just; fairness.
The American Heritage® Dictionary, 5th Edition
“Justice is the ethical, philosophical idea that people are to be treated impartially, fairly, properly, and reasonably by the law and by arbiters of the law, that laws are to ensure that no harm befalls another, and where harm is alleged, a remedial action is taken – both the accuser and the accused receive a morally right consequence merited by their actions.” Legal Information Institute
Common everyday sayings like “justice under law”, “we are a country of laws”, and “no-one is above the law”, used to have meaning.
The facts chronicled in this easy to read ebook prove themselves sufficient to convince any unbiased prudent reader/judge that Ontario’s Landlord and Tenant Board (“LTB”) has failed to meet the very definition of justice. This failure has led to literally tens of thousands of everyday honest Canadian landlords paying a tremendous financial as well as emotional price.
If LTB refuses to co-operate with the reasonable recommendations set out here, LTB should, at minimum change it’s name, dropping the word Landlord all together to more accurately reflect its position because landlords are not welcome or respected at LTB.
The evidence presented here clearly shows that LTB actually offers no legitimate form of justice to landlords and is actually negatively biased toward them, if not outright disrespectful toward them.
The LTB is shown delivering what is a categorical contradiction of the literal definition of “Justice”. This self imposed contradiction in law has delivered (and is still delivering) unspeakable anguish, heartbreak, and devastation to literally thousands of honest Canadian landlords as well as real estate investors.
At LTB the scales of justice prove to be seriously unbalanced, by many well meaning highly educated fellow Canadians just doing their job as they see it, but what has resulted is an unfair and specifically unjust concept of justice being handed out that no-one has challenged over the many years since LTB was instituted by the Ontario Government. In this instance the LTB is the major, if not sole, cause of this massive injustice.
This ebook walks you through two years of the LTB’s altered reality, where common sense and logic seem to be completely ignored. It is baffling and somewhat confusing to understand “how all these highly educated lawyers, judges, and administrators have managed to get it all so observably screwed up”!
This is not an attack on education and/or educated people. I actually wish I had me some of that. But I don’t, and at 75 years of age and happily and comfortably retired, I concluded long ago that my not having a formal education might not be such a bad thing. My education came from real world survival in the streets and I see myself as ‘self educated’ as opposed to uneducated.
I have developed a theory that suggests that higher education may be a significant part of the problem, not just at LTB but at many of our institutions and government agencies. I’ve been successful despite not having visited the halls of higher learning and as a successful entrepreneur I’ll take good old common sense over academia any day.
In the cut-throat world of entrepreneur land where I grew up, and thanks to my wife/ business partner of over three decades now, (without whom I would not have been able to build simplycondos.com) I’ve managed to live the Canadian dream.
In my sixty years as an entrepreneur (never having had a “job”) I’ve met lots of highly educated stupid people that simply couldn’t cut it as a entrepreneur and although I do respect education, education alone, in my opinion, does not lead to success in life or business.
Entrepreneurland is literally where the big fish swim and where cons, snake oil salespeople, and other such loveable horse thieves are more the norm. Entrepreneurs simply cannot make mistakes and hope to survive. Yet apparently in Ontario’s justice system and specifically at LTB we see mistake after mistake from LTB’s very inception and under the guidance of all highly educated and highly (tax payer) paid overseers, administrators, and managers. Having landlords suffer a year and a half backlog in a vacuum waiting to have a case heard while the tenant pays no rent is simply not a formula for success, but no-one at LTB is self-analysing or assessing.
One doesn’t need a PhD to figure out where LTB’s flawed logic is taking us along with our justice system. Take a look at our American neighbour just south of us and have a look at what a dying flawed democracy looks like.
Now consider a justice system so dysfunctional that an almost two (2) year backlog is seen as an acceptable standing operating procedure, ever since LTB’s inception, while literally destroying lives of innocent taxpaying citizens along the way.
This real life case study should have been and could have been resolved within thirty days as was a similar matter personally decades earlier that arose just prior to LTB being introduced and back then it took us only a month to resolve the entire matter.
My wife and I have been small landlords in Ontario for over two and half decades and have never had any dealings with LTB until 2022 after moving our retirement investment portfolio from Toronto to Oakville I learned the “Canadian Dream” young in life from my grandfather whom I was actually name after. He was a barber in a small Ontario town. He taught me that the Canadian Dream goes like this: “own your own home and own an investment property to cover living expenses in retirement”. I remember him frequently saying: “when you are young you work for your money and when you are old your money will work for you”.
The real life experience that this ebook sets out has been so extreme and potentially destructive, that it is about the only thing that could bring me out of retirement that was so much deserved and cherished.
To write this ebook requires me to shelf my much loved retirement and deal with matters that don’t really affect us. I’m simply left with no choice as, if not fixed, the mess that is today’s LTB, will continue bankrupting innocent, every-day Canadians!
At a time when there is a severe housing shortage and declining new construction resulting in skyrocketing rents LTB is showing itself as counterintuitive as it is literally driving landlords out of the rental property business.
I will unite patriotic Canadians that truly care about Canada’s wellbeing as a nation, and who are willing to roll up their sleeves and get involved in fixing this mess (all that is expected of you is to purchase and read thoroughly these ebooks and motivate your contact list to do the same)! Success in fixing LTB, can only be achieved by us doing the heavy slugging ourselves as history shows simply doing the same old thing over and over again while expecting a different outcome is the literal definition of insanity! It appears that LTB and the Government of Ontario have been bordering insanity for quite some time now and someone has to step in.
At 75 year old I am simply too old to take on writing, publishing, and distributing this ebook series from a cold start alone. A half or a quarter century ago I would be all in despite being techo-illiterate. Writing and publishing these critically important case studies is manageable for me as they are all based on real world realities that I have experienced first hand (I have unique factual knowledge that is compelling me to push forward to get this done).
I am inviting fellow Canadians to step up and give me a hand. You’ve already taken the first step by reading this far. I’m asking you read the chapters made available FREE here closely and then, once you’ve convinced yourself that this is important enough to get you involved, support the effort to fix it with a small contribute of just $20 and then, and this is the most important part, spread the word to as many friends, family members, and contacts as possible and ask them to do the same.
The only way we can fix this mess is for all of us, including but not limited to landlords, plus all real estate investors and fellow concerned Canadians, to unite and pull together and speak with one voice based on a common understanding of the facts. And that’s where these ebooks come in because they are based solely on the facts.
We honest taxpaying Canadians cannot leave fixing this up to the government! They simply will not even listen. The government don’t even want to look at it. It is our government and its institutions that have created this through a lack of oversight that has allowed the dysfunction to get this far! It is vital that every-day Canadians fund this restoration of integrity ourselves or it simply will not ever get restored and like America, we’ll be next in line to go down the toilet bowl of failed democracies.
And more importantly, the formula for success rests in everyone literally educating themselves in a way not taught in schools, (but uniquely taught here in this ebook series). Success will be achieved ONLY through everyone getting their own copy of this ebook, (and all others in the series), reading them thoroughly and continually spreading the word. There are lots of agencies claiming to be committed to consumer protection in Ontario but in reality there is literally no such thing.
You are now on your way (the critical success component is always the first step) and when you have read this one, and see the evidence exposing all of this, it will become clear and logical to refer this ebook helping to take this critically important ebook viral.
In this way we reach and educate the majority of Ontario and Canadians in the shortest amount of time and will then set about fixing this. You will find the educational value of these ebooks alone exceeds your small contribution.
LTB, along with and under the guidance of our government, has stripped Ontario landlords of our fundamental rights to equal justice under the law and in so doing shattered their Canadian Dream. All I’m trying to do is respectfully inform LTB that the landlords simply want our dream back and that requires equal justice under law.
In this ebook you walk through the literal nightmare that uniquely comes with dealing with LTB. I’m not attacking, mocking, insulting or ridiculing LTB in any manner similar to most journalists and/or whistleblower do these days. They are trying to develop their Brand and I simply am not. I would rather enjoy my retirement but this is much bigger than me and/or my preferences on how things should be done.
Flame throwing won’t achieve anything. My mission is to fix this obvious dysfunction that has unfortunately been introduced by LTB and allowed to flourish under its guidance. I’m seeking only to fix this very serious mess, and timing is of the essence. We are talking about restoring and protecting the integrity of literally our democracy!
I’m not even a little angry at or personally upset with LTB or even with this Tenant who has proven himself to be the Poster Boy of LTB cons, or even his shadow legal counsel. I trust that LTB’s intentions are good and honourable but that the outcome of its efforts has proven to be a decided failure.
I do believe that there are many well-meaning, hard working, Canadians employed at LTB who do their very best that their education has taught them to do every day. My logical question is “with a backlog of 38,000 cases . . . . how can all these well meaning and highly educated people have gotten this so wrong”? But that’s a topic for another day.
To be sure everyone understands and is on the same page here, let’s start with some basic background on LTB. In Chapter 2 we’ll walk through a modern-day/real life case study that shows a wilful and unlawful pre-meditated scheme to financially exploit a landlord through blackmail (actually greenmail).
This case profiles a premeditated and wilful fraud committed by a con/tenant maliciously filing a completely false (Bad Faith) Complaint against a completely innocent landlord by literally using LTB as his weapon in his con, (with insider knowledge of how dysfunctional LTB is thanks to his corrupt lawyer featured prominently in my previous ebook in this series “Justice Refused” referred to there as “Owners#1Law”).
The Landlord Tenant Board is one of a number of a number of tribunals in Ontario. It is reported “to receive over 80,000 applications annually”.
The residential real estate sector, where I invested almost a half century of my career and life, plays a key major roll in the Canada’s overall economic stability. Key players in this sector are split between end-user buyers intending on living in the home and investors owning income (“rental”) properties and others who flip properties.
The Tribunal, despite promoting that it is committed to delivering “justice” and publishing that it “protects both tenants and landlords”, has proven itself doing anything but meeting its own stated goals. And LTB does not, and will not accept criticism! So much for common sense. In my career if you don’t constantly self assess and self-analyse … you die.
You will see in this ebook that LTB is suffering from some sort of dysfunctional archaic system that relies on remote (academic) governance relying exclusively on allegedly highly educated and credentialed but lacking in worldly experience, academics (look ma no hands), who apparently have little or no hands-on experience or awareness of that which they are attempting to govern.
The evidence presented here shows that all landlord’s rights have been stripped from them and worse! What LTB has done is unleash hoards of cons onto unsuspecting landlords who are now being targeted, financially exploited, and destroyed.
With cons in possession of the landlord’s most valuable asset, the landlord is disadvantaged from the very onset. And for some unexplained and irrational reason, there exists only the most minimal conceivable protection for landlords under LTB.
This can all be seen at a glance on LTB’s website where many documents clearly show observable negative bias toward landlords and almost exclusively in favour of tenants. Landlords, for example repeatedly can be seen being threatened with fines while similar and/or the same conduct by tenants does not include fines. That’s simply not justice.
The LTB was established under the Residential Tenancies Act as an arbiter of good faith and integrity, to assist in resolving disputes between landlords and tenants, through mediation or adjudication. As seen in this ebook LTB has failed on both fronts!
This ebook chronicles over an 18 month long, totally fabricated dispute between a real life landlord and tenant. It shows that the LTB, despite holding a hard copy detailed chronicle of the entire fraud being perpetrated, has never became aware of presented facts that exposed a con taking place and actually using LTB as their weapon to perpetrate the fraud.
LTB appears to have been set up dysfunctionally ever since its inception and is published as having been carried massive backlogs of some 38,000 unsettled cases every year since its inception.
You may be surprised to learn that LTB has long had the reputation for being unfair and inefficient. Unfortunately, according to a report from Ontario’s Ombudsman in 2021/22, “the LTB has gotten worse in many operational and service areas”, and “what’s driving the backlog boils down to operational incompetence”.
Those are harsh but accurate words from Ontario’s Ombudsman, in light of so many landlords facing and experiencing bankruptcy due to LTB’s involvement. And this Ombudsman’s Report was delivered 4 years ago and the beat just keeps on keeping on. Surely if LTB hasn’t gotten it right by now something new has to be looked into. I have a three word remedy that I’m prepared to guarantee will fix this . . . . . read these ebooks!
According to LTB’s own 2021/22 Annual Report, “the Tribunal set a goal of having eighty per cent (80%) of eviction applications considered within 25 days”. Shockingly, “the Tribunal only meets this target for a fast hearing for landlords to evict problem tenants 0.2 per cent of the time with the average hearing taking almost 75 days just to schedule” (that’s not even a half of one percent and 75 days is a pipe dream!).
By today’s standards these statistics qualify as unrealistic goals as this Case Study presented here took over 12 months to finally just have the Hearing in as simple a case as possible and even it was postponed another 6 months without justification. And these Hearings are the only place where arguments can be presented, and both of those Hearings proved inadequate, ill-informed, ill-served, and illogical to say it respectfully.
The most shocking evidence disclosed in this ebook shows that LTB did absolutely nothing for 16 – 17 months to clear up a dispute that the evidence shows could have, and should have, been resolved within a few days, but LTB stunningly has no mechanism in place resembling a Motion for Summary Judgement, which is customary in real court cases.
This ebook shows definitely that this case could have been resolved within a couple days as the tenant’s Claim in his T2 was provably and intentionally filed in Bad Faith, and thus rendering the matter Moot (legally dead) had LTB had such a mechanism in place.
The tenant’s T2 (set out in Chapter 3, serves as irrefutable evidence proving that he has wilfully committed the crime of Fraud, where he seeks $35,000 plus $13,000+ in damages based on his false allegation that the lease claimed “a cement back deck was to be present when he took possession of the property”. His own emails 8 months into the lease contradict this false claim by showing that the cement deck was not due until later the following spring! LTB to this day remains totally ignorant of this despite it being delivered to them due to them not having read the defendant’s (landlord’s) submission.
A chimpanzee in a suit could pretty much have figure out that this tenant was lying but unfortunately LTB didn’t have a chimpanzee on staff, and actually never even read both sides submissions despite being told in writing by the landlord, holding 2 Hearings, deliberating for over a month and a half while being informed. With Artificial Intelligence becoming so popular and available these days, one possible solution for wiping out the dysfunction at LTB seems rather obvious.
But AI should not be needed to have had this case thrown out, as good old common street sense and logic led to the landlord pointing out to LTB, the tenant’s obvious bad faith filing which is an offence in LTB’s own published material.
In real life LTB to this day has no awareness of the con that was perpetrated against it despite being told so by the landlord (defendant) in a law suit seeking $50k in financial damages by the tenant.
In May 2023, the Province’s Ombudsman released a long-awaited investigation into the Tribunal that detailed a litany of structural, operational, and service-related problems. Specifically, the ombudsman’s Report documented that “the backlog of cases at the LTB has grown to 38,000”, and it is taking an average of seven or eight months — sometimes up to two years — for a hearing to even be scheduled”.
And according to LTB’s most recent Annual Report the LTB between 2021/22, and 2018:
• LTB Increased its backlog by 20,000 applications, an increase of more than 150%; • Took on average 342 days from filing to final order on a landlord arrears application, (15 months in the case included here);
• Made callers wait 3 times longer for their calls to be answered.
All this backward trajectory, according to the Ombudsman: “is taking place despite the LTB having a increased its number of adjudicators to more than at any previous time, and when the LTB received increased taxpayer paid funding”.
Accessing justice at the LTB is now enormously more difficult if not impossible due principally to facts introduced in this ebook, the primary one being that LTB doesn’t even look at the information filed until the day of the Hearing which normally these days, takes in excess of a year to year and a half, when it took only approximately 30 days to evict a bad tenant prior to LTB coming into existence!
But, according to tribunalswatch.ca, (and here is where the proverbial rubber meets the road) . . . “the crisis is not acknowledged. The leadership at Tribunals Ontario, of which the LTB is part, stated in the same 2021/22 Annual Report (from which this data is taken) and on its website, that Tribunals Ontario puts ‘access to justice at the centre of everything the landlords do’” and that Tribunals Ontario, including the LTB, is “well on the path to achieve our vision of becoming recognized as being among the best adjudicative tribunals in North America. You can’t solve a problem if you deny it exists and if you deny your own data. And this is not a crisis that can be solved simply with more money. The facts contradict this stated objective!
Having operated the first and foremost residential condo specialty website in Toronto “simplycondos.com” for over two decades and having been an active real estate investor/ landlord, before that following my having introduced “Buyer Agency” to Canada in 2000, I’ve had a couple of flaky tenants, but never had to fight our way through anything close to the disappointing experience of dealing with LTB due specifically to its biased, and landlord-hostile interference that strips landlords of any/all protection whatsoever.
As I mentioned above, as landlords we did have one shaky tenant back in 2003, and quickly dealt with it by increasing the rent by $1,000/month (which surprising as it may sound was, at that time legal, as observed by the judge in court the day that the landlords prevailed) when we took our tenant to Small Claims Court (in under 2 months start to finish).
I recall the judge commenting “I don’t know why you would want to increase the rent by that much” but he acknowledged that doing so was ‘legal” (the rent was originally $1,900/month) due to the condo having been built after a specific year exempted the units under rent control.
That all changed dramatically when LTB appeared on the scene. This is what the landlords get for academics lacking real world experience making rules that affect all of us everyday Canadians.
It is obvious that things have drastically changed in a decidedly negative direction, as the LTB has since constructed a new and wholly un-Canadian and unlawful infrastructure of the Tribunal where the landlord has become some kind of second-class citizen.
In this ebook and all in the series, I present honestly, and respectfully, in a non- combative and non-confrontation way. The LTB and Ontario Ombudsman, in their own words, walk us through the delusion that is reality at LTB showing it failing to deliver justice.
A heavy portion of our taxes underwrite our justice systems thus, again I ask, where’s the justice in all of this. I have delivered rock solid hard copy evidence to support everything that is being presented in this ebook.
One thing that the evidence shows is that LTB has created a world-class arena for cons and even many who are not cons but who are financially compromised, to simply stop paying their rent, while make up and filing unsupported frivolous Complaints seeking damages in the tens of thousands of dollars, without evidence being required to support their false claims. The con of the day includes receiving a huge pay–off for giving back the landlord’s valuable property. That’s called being blackmailed as opposed to justice.
Once again, the logical question here is “how did all these highly educated people get it all so absolutely wrong”?
And in the end, to realize that after a year and a half of outrageous costs to taxpayers, and inconvenience including financial destruction on innocent landlords the LTB is proven to have not even attempted to read the file before the Hearing and did not even have the defendants Answer to the tenant’s false Claim at the Hearing! Obviously LTB relied on verbal exchanges between and the parties to formulate their decision. How archaic, sub-standard, and lazy an approach to reaching common sense legal solutions.
So in the end LTB got it right but really still got it all wrong!
Our democracy is crumbling much in the same way as the meltdown we are observing in America right now. LTB has aided all of the cons in their constant search for targets and dupes for them to exploit and our residential real estate industry is being choked by LTB convincing landlords to stop making available rental units amidst a historic rental unit shortage. This has got to be fixed and it must be fixed now.
So are you with me?
THE GOAL IS TO RAISE $500,000.00 TO FIX THIS
Legal Defence Fund plus establish consumer protection agency
A. Having 25,000 Canadian Patriots invest in and read their copy of this ebook: “LTB . . . Unfair, Unjust & Un-Canadian” @ $20 and after reading it simply spread the word;
OR
B. Have that same 25,000 Canadian Patriots invest in both “LTB . . . Unfair, Unjust & Un-Canadian” and “Justice Refused” reducing the number of supporters needed to 12,500;
OR
C. Have 5,000 Canadian Patriots join our “Founder’s Club” investing $100, receiving both these ebooks and all future ebooks in this series without further investment. Founders will also be identified in each ebook and they are a landlord being exploited FREE advice on dealing with their situation;
