HOW COULD ALL THESE HIGHLY EDUCATED LAWYERS AND JUDGES GET THIS SO WRONG?!
The narrative, with its linked evidence set out in these ebooks shows definitively that Ontario’s Landlord and Tenant Board is a failed experiment of academia attempting to resolve serious real-world issues while lacking real-world experience.
LTB is a prime example of our nation’s over-dependence and over-reliance on academia and in this instance it’s about academia gone astray. It all starts with a rather serious lack of accountability with respect to oversight. And in this case, we see a dash of malfeasance and intellectual paralysis thrown in.
What this ebook clearly does is to accurately articulate the observable and rather irrational anti–Canadian deficiencies that exist at, and thanks to LTB. These ebooks are certainly not done from an academic perspective.
I’m delivering the honest facts and allowing them to stand on their own merits, based on a modern, real world LTB case from filing to Hearings to Final Ruling. All that I’m left to say is that “LTB should be ashamed of itself”.
I would not have written this ebook if I could have avoid doing so, but my Canadian patriotism keeps dragging me back into the reality that says if I don’t do something, and do it now, our great country will continue to suffer with innocent Canadians being destroyed along the way.
I am extremely happily and deservedly retired but every time I try putting writing these ebooks aside, the reality of what LTB is doing to small independent landlords simply eats away at me, making me feel guilty for doing nothing about it, much like with Michael Corleone, it just keeps dragging me back in, so here I am and here’s the fix!
The surprising thing to me personally is the realization that this entire mess can be so easily fixed! Everyday common sense shows that substantive results can be achieved and delivering true justice while uniquely resolving the long standing backlog at LTB with relative ease.
This of course is if LTB would just listen and thereby relieve thousands of Ontario landlords of the abuse they are presently enduring at and thanks to LTB. For far too many landlords it’s already too late and that’s the true shame!
This is my honest attempt at restore integrity into what is an observably broken justice system. Doing so has to start with getting a solid factual grasp on LTB’s flawed logic, practices, and procedures and there’s no way better than walking a real-life case through and simply documenting the facts and outcomes.
LTB has left hundreds if not thousands of honest, every-day Canadians in extreme financial despair and hardship, with observably very little hope of anything closely resembling justice ever coming their way.
You don’t have to take my word for it. The evidence is made so clear here that all the academic credentials in the world cannot justify the dark place that LTB finds itself in and has taken us all along for the ride today. Let’s face it . . . educated stupid is still and will always be . . . stupid!
First and foremost I simply cannot get my head around how LTB, an institution ultimately funded by the collective of us tax paying citizens, could take a simple and very straight forward, common sense practice like ‘equal justice under law’ and so academically screw it up and I will say here, LTB is no small screw up! I don’t believe that any successful, uneducated entrepreneurs like me, would screw up as badly as has LTB here and survive! In my world of entrepreneurialism they would already be dead.
After all, LTB has been established, operated by, and managed by all highly educated people since its inception, yet look at the catastrophic mess that all these university trained lawyers have delivered to us. And the beat still goes on today! The truly stunning thing is that not a single lawyer, board member, or government official has challenged LTB’s observable lack of logic in its effort to deliver justice.
And this cancer has been metastasizing dating clear back to LTB’s very inception. The narrative and evidence in this ebook leaves no questions unanswered. LTB has proven itself, in a real-world case to be ineffective to the point of dysfunctional and definitively unfair, unjust and un-Canadian.
LTB is academically locked into its flawed concept of justice rendering it blind to truth and fact. Not blind like lady justice blind, but deaf, dumb and blind kid pinball wizard blind!
The evidence shows that the entire mess that LTB is facing is attributable solely to LTB so anticipating that they will be receptive to self-analysis or any level of public scrutiny seems a bit of a stretch and possibly out of the question. But I believe in giving everyone the opportunity to amend their wrongdoings.
That’s where my strategy for these ebooks comes in as there is definite strength in numbers and educating the masses using my self-financing strategy of writing and selling these educational ebooks is simply the logical way to go. And I believe it is about the only way we can see and/or hope that anything will be done to fix the mess.
The proceeds from these sales of this ebook series will be used to finance a collaboration of true patriotic Canadians to take on the massive task of fixing this mess at LTB as well as with many other of our similarly challenged public institutions like our municipal and provincial governments and courts.
FACT: LTB is making its Ruling while in its Hearing transcripts acknowledging to not having even looked at or read the #1 key element in any case (Tenant’s bad faith Complaint – “T2”) prior to or even at the Hearing, nor did LTB look at or read the #2 most critical elements in any case (the defendant’s/landlord’s Answer). Granted the Chairperson may be an accomplished speed reader but he acknowledged not even having a copy of the landlord’s Answer or any submissions with him at the Hearing.
The matter gets exponentially worse when you see that the LTB did absolutely no homework in this real world case where the tenant is fraudulently seeking $35,000 in compensation while not paying over $15,000 in rent.
If LTB was legitimately seeking to deliver justice, LTB would have, at minimum, read the landlord’s One Page Introduction (would have been their Motion for Summary Judgement) in their Answer (see Chapter 4).
And how do we know LTB didn’t read it?
Well, the Hearing was video recorded and the transcript shows the Chairperson admitting to not having the one sent to him prior to the Hearing by the landlords and thus not having read my (the defendant’s) Answer along with its one page Introduction showing that the tenant’s own words in his T2 filing and emails showed that his entire Claim was a fraud against the LTB as well as against the landlords. The tenant’s own emails that the landlords delivered prior to the Hearing (but not read) irrefutably proves the entire fraud and shows LTB being duped.
Despite seeing these obvious contradictions immediately upon receiving the tenant’s T2 and being willing to inform LTB, there simply was no mechanism in place at LTB to facilitate this common sense logical step.
The truth is that LTB relies on a live relatively unstructured Hearing where the sides can verbally fight it out. LTD might and actually did come up with the proper ruling here but missed the point entirely which in this matter constitutes professional malfeasance.
Now, it is crucial to understand that despite coming up with the proper but narrow Ruling, LTB did get the back story right in the end. But the case that they missed was so black and white obvious that there really was only one possible outcome.
The key issue here is the 18 month delay to get to the facts. This is where small landlords are getting destroyed! And this continues to financially destroy honest everyday Canadian landlords as I write this and if I don’t write this book life will continue at LTB and with landlords considered today as the norm.
LTB’s first critical mistake, in my self-educated opinion and proven by the evidence, is that LTB academically categorizes all landlords as ‘the bad guys that are out to exploit the good guy tenants’ and that all landlords, from the multi-unit high-rises to single unit landlords are the same. Common sense should tells us that this is flawed logic, but a simple read through LTB’s website shows you how one-sided LTB concept of justice actually is.
LTB must accept that by arbitrarily modifying existing Canadian contract law by automatically transitioning and/or converting all leases in Ontario into month to month leases contradicts LTB’s own wording in its own Required Lease Form.
I am respectfully asking LTB to explain: “on what authority and/or logic did LTB rely when it modified conventional, existing Canadian contract law? I also would respectfully point out that LTB has introduced a literal contradiction within its own legal verbiage in its Required Lease Form”.
LTB introduced a few years back, a requirement that all leases in Ontario must be executed in LTB’s Standardized Lease Form while at the same time LTB changed the playing field to automatically convert all leases to month to month at the expiry date of the lease.
That sounds innocuous. But in LTB’s Required Lease Form, LTB stipulates when addressing termination date of the lease as “expiring on a specific date”. You simply cannot have a contract with a specified expiry date and then have it automatically change to something entirely different.
In this case, the landlords had used LTB’s Required Lease Form and in that lease agreement LTB’s own words stated “expiring on September 31st”. This tenant didn’t pay his rent in June, July, August with September prepaid in the “first and last” deposit up front, had no intention of paying any more rent.
LTB’s introduced policy of automatically converting fixed term leases into month-to- month leases left us (the landlords) in this real life case absolutely no protection whatsoever as the tenant entered onto the lease in bad faith, was in wilful breach of the lease, and was lying about absolutely everything, and then included with a law suit seeking $35,000 plus, while LTB’s introduced modification in simple contract law allowed him to live rent free until the resolution of the matter at a Hearing.
LTB’s bastardization regarding termination dates, breaks down totally in cases where tenants are cons who are seeking (and getting) massive settlement compensation to give the property back to the landlord. This is simply stupid, unfair, unjust, and un-Canadian.
Especially when you add on the fact that there is not even a mechanism in place to require or enable the tenant to continue to advance their rental payment. This is a very attractive up front windfall to a con and something that simply should never be out there.
All LTB would have to do to fix this dysfunctional logic is require that the rent in disputed cases be deposited into a TLB controlled Trust Account with the disputed payments released to the prevailing party upon settlement of the matter.
Today, a ruling at LTB doesn’t even get the landlord paid. If the tenant chooses not to pay the judgement as specified in the ruling the landlords then have to start all over (if they can find the offending tenant) and take him to Small Claims Court and even there compensation is not a sure thing.
Apparently, LTB did not factor in and even more probable, was oblivious to the Con Factor. You see, hidden below the surface and out of sight is the reality that our entire society, is not the moral, ethical place society that it sells itself as, and apparently this isn’t something taught in university and/or colleges either.
This seriously flawed logic on LTB’s part has resulted in a contract that literally turns over a landlord’s valuable personal asset to the tenant with no means for the landlord to deal with them, should the tenant have unlawful or malicious intentions.
The real life case set out here shows that there are tenants intentionally exploiting landlords as a result of the dysfunction introduced by LTB. Simple internet searches show case after case after case at LTB with few acceptable solutions even being sought. You can’t solve or remedy a wrong when you won’t admit it exists.
Cons are, and have always been, will always be all around us everywhere but, for some strange reason, our society seem to prefer to pretend that cons don’t even exist, everything is always on the up-and-up, and if there are such people around, well they don’t live amongst us or affect us. Folks I hate to be the wake-up guy here but . . . wake up! They are and always have been, and will always be, all around you.
Landlords throughout Ontario and more likely throughout Canada are being put into the worst possible legal quagmire imaginable and literally have to forfeit control of their asset over to the tenant as if the possibility that the tenant may be a con doesn’t exist.
This, at a time when we have a housing shortage! How dysfunctional does this have to get before someone steps up. Well, I’m prepared and willing to step up and all I need is for a whole lot of my fellow patriotic Canadians to step up and support the effort.
Today’s most popular and profitable scheme for cons is to simply become a tenant, stop paying your rent and blackmail the landlord into paying you thousands of dollars to be given back their property! And don’t forget you will have to live with LTB’s 18 month backlog!
In this ebook I’ve laid out the real life scenario of exactly this flawed logic but LTB, despite my having delivered clear and concise evidence on how cons are exploiting the system and destroying honest everyday small landlords in the process, and after 18 months of waiting for LTB to hold a Hearing let alone Rule, has absolutely no awareness of the true facts of this case. Think about this! This is apparently what LTB feels is and believes to be . . . justice.
In this case, the evidence shows that it was the tenant that intentionally initiated an entirely false conflict assailing his landlord by making unsubstantiated false allegations of the landlord harassing, threatening, intimidating and bullying him, without being required to submit evidence to support his allegations. The tenant went as far as to falsely allege sexual impropriety by the landlord toward his daughter whom the landlord never even met after the tenant took occupancy of the upscale property.
All that LTB has to do is require a complaining tenant to submit the evidence they will use and give the landlord a specified number of days to answer the complaint with their supporting evidence. This easy and logical step would have knocked off 17 months of total delay in our case, which could have and would have been resolved within 30 days.
Yet here the landlords see a tenant simply having to fill out a form and send it into LTB without a single iota of meaningful proof and/or fact, stop paying rent, and wait for 12 – 18 months for a Hearing which was he then would delay another 6 months, all without a shred of evidence to substantiate this tenant’s Bad Faith T2.
And despite LTB having Ruled totally in our favour, to this very day LTB has absolutely no idea of the fraud that this tenant has perpetrated against them despite my having delivered to them all the detailed facts in my Answer prior to the Hearing!
After waiting a little over a month following the Hearing, I sent LTB an inquiry respectfully asking them to read my submitted Answer to the T2 that I had sent to them months earlier. The audio/video transcript of the Hearing shows that this update was not a part of the LTB Hearings and which the Chairperson admits having no awareness of.
On March 14, 2024 the landlord responded to the tenant’s flawed attempt at what amounted to a second T2 stating the obvious: “I am a Landlord in . . . The Tenant in this matter stopped paying his rent and filed what the evidence shows to be a false T2. The Hearing was held on January 22, 2024 and the Chair concluded the Hearing, reporting that he wanted to read through the evidence. Unfortunately, the landlord’s evidence was not available at the Hearing and we can only hope that he read my Answer during his deliberations.
Landlords are respectfully writing to inform LTB that the Landlord’s Answer to the T2 was not read by the Chair thus not included in the evidence presented at the Hearing. Here’s the landlords email:
The evidence included with landlord’s Answer delivered prior to the Hearing is vital for the facts of this case to be known, as it shows that this entire matter was a pre- meditated scheme to financially exploit the landlord by misleading LTB. With all due respect, the Hearing did not include all the facts of this simple but complex-by-design case.
The evidence submitted by landlords in this case shows a wilful and premeditated fraud involving blackmailing the Landlord to pay the tenant to vacate. The tenant stopped paying his rent and started bombarding the landlord with unfounded and false allegations of harassment, bullying, threatening, intimidating without submitting any evidence. The landlord’s Answer exposes the tenant’s scheme and is fully supported with evidence that was not included in or considered during the Hearing.
Landlords respectfully asks LTB to take a deeper look into the evidence submitted with their Answer to enable LTB to make a fully informed and just ruling in this matter.
Landlord’s Answer, pleaded to LTB to have the Tenant pay landlord’s legal costs ($3,700+) and to penalize this offender to the maximum under law, (both options in LTB’s information online). LTB’s recording of the Hearing shows that landlord’s Answer was not included in the Hearing.
Landlord’s one page Introduction in his Answer exposes the tenant’s “Bad Faith” filing of the T2, as well as this tenant’s unlawful premeditated conduct, that rendered his T2 moot (allegation #7 of the T2 “concrete deck to be present” is proven false by tenant’s own emails). Landlord’s evidence (R3.6) Tenant: “Last year you told us . . you were first on the list for this year”. Landlord’s submitted evidence shows tenant’s own email contradicting his own T2.
Landlords respectfully ask LTB to include Landlord’s complete submitted Answer and Evidence for consideration in this matter prior to making his final ruling. Respectfully . . . . the Landlords.
So a retired, every-day Canadian landlord is seen here, ending up in a lease with a con for a tenant, that had wilfully entered into the lease in bad faith, made numerous false and misleading statements on his Rental Application, and who was provably executing a premeditated scheme (like thousands of tenants today) to blackmail the landlords for tens of thousands of dollars and with LTB in possession of all the facts documented and delivered to it by the landlords, but totally missing all of the evidence that showed everything that the tenant was doing. This clearly shows LTB failing to fulfill its fiduciary duty of at minimum reading the material from both sides.
It doesn’t take a university degree to see how dysfunctional and inappropriate all of this is! Can anyone find any sense of justice here? Actually, to see how cases like this should be handled, you can simply watch a couple episodes of “Hot Bench”, a daily television show where three actual judges in a similar Small Claims Court environment consistently show that they are fully aware of, and frequently referring to details that they had previously read in each party’s submissions (Claim and Answer).
The real life case that you’ve just read here is living testament to the disappointing lack of competency that has led to all this injustice and confusion at LTB. It is difficult to visualize that LTB has intended to screw this up as badly as they have. The hope is that LTB will be receptive to addressing the issues set out here and voluntarily help and co- operate in fixing the mess that it alone has created.
If LTB isn’t receptive to our offer to help, and based on history it is doubtful that they will be, then we together (Charles and all patriotic Canadians purchasing these ebooks) will sue LTB and the Province of Ontario if necessary.
This is why these ebooks exist in the first place. The proceeds from the sale of these ebooks will underwrite all costs plus establish an agency to actually protect the rights of all landlords, tenants and all those considering becoming one or the other, insuring true justice for all. The present model has shown itself a serious failure.
This ebook gives a glaring example of something that is a daily part of the Canadian rental real estate market these days. It shows a tenant pre-meditatively setting out to defraud a landlord while unlawfully using LTB to actually commit his fraud and he’s getting his LTB exploitation tactics and strategy from an unethical and corrupt lawyer who chooses to hide in the shadows!
The bigger problem in this is the fact that LTB has remained totally ignorant of the facts of a case that it has already ruled on. It’s time that LTB engages with all Ontario landlords and help restore integrity and just treatment under law to all landlords and tenants equally.
Today, this ebook is, unfortunately bearing the disappointing factual news, that there simply is no integrity available in our justice system (LTB) in Ontario. And when you read “Justice Refused” you will see our Provincial Courts of Justice and judges suffering a comparable dire dearth of justice to that seen at LTB.
Canada is a nation of laws and the laws are supposed to be there expressly to deliver justice to all. Somehow dysfunction has been allowed to set in somewhere along the line and landlords have ended up with a totally unjust, unfair, and un-Canadian system that literally works against them.
This is not intended as an arbitrary slight against LTB but rather it is a legitimate, honest offer to work with them to fix this observably messed up system but history suggests that we should not expect LTB to greet us with open arms, thus the need to finance this through the sale of these ebooks.
It is reasonable for Ontario landlords to respectfully ask LTB to explain the authority upon which they are acting with this seemingly arbitrary and illogical conclusion to impose into all leases, the automatic transition into month-to-month, even if the landlord has a CONadian tenant (Con masquerading as a respectable Canadian) committing outright premeditated fraud and crimes with impunity.
LTB has put out a literal cattle call to cons and that’s exactly what all landlords face these days in Ontario due specifically to this interference in basic contract law introduced by LTB. The historic backlog at LTB is self-inflicted as a good proportion of the backlog consists of cons doing exactly what cons do (free rent, seeking tens of thousands of dollars, plus moving costs to vacate the property).
LTB actually (unconsciously) offers an incentive to cons that allows them to arbitrarily withhold payment of their rent by simply filing a dispute and supporting their claim with lies, knowing that no-one is going to even look at the claim let alone the evidence.
And LTB has no instincts or education relating to dealing with cons. This incentive literally is manna from heaven to cons (free rent with ultimate payoff) and you can believe that the word has gotten out far and wide! LTB’s massive backlog since its inception proves this to be the case.
Another quite easy fix in this Rubik’s Cube of a severely broken justice system is to
require tenants filing Complaints to have to continue to pay their rent by depositing it into a LTB controlled Trust Account each month until the case is heard and resolved.
What common sense structure could support a justice system that allows tenants to rid themselves of their monthly rent payment by simply fabricating a story against the landlord in a world where it takes upwards of 18 months to get a Hearing with a Chairperson that is completely ill-informed about?
Upon receiving a Ruling following a Hearing, the funds in the account plus interest would be dispensed to the prevailing party at LTB’s instruction. As it stands today, landlords have no assurance of ever seeing the unpaid rent despite prevailing at and getting a judgement from LTB.
But by far the most effective ‘common sense’ step is for LTB to notify all parties of a new policy imposing substantive penalties for any party caught lying on a per occasion basis”. You can rest assured that the 18 month backlog at LTB would disappear, literally over night following this announcement! All the tenant’s lies that are so effectively exposed in this ebook would never have been introduced if they attracted this kind of significant financial penalty.
LTB (as well as our courts, legal profession, crown attorneys, et al) must develop at least an academic awareness of how cons work, how to identify and deal with cons, and learn how LTB is being exploited and used as a weapon to exploit honest Ontario tax payers and landlords (who bear 100 percent of all costs including LTB).
Having the prevailing party in a dispute get their legal costs paid back from the unsuccessful party would insure balanced justice and the return to the Canadian credible ways of old. These five easily executed steps would clear up the backlog at LTB permanently but first LTB has got to listen and agree to work with us.
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;
