No one should be forced out of their home in the middle of the pandemic.
COVID-19 has highlighted the importance of having a safe, secure place to call home.
Right now thousands of tenants are unable to pay their rent and are about to be evicted. Many have nowhere to go.
They are on the verge of becoming homeless - in winter, in the middle of the pandemic.
Lives are at risk.
On December 8th an NDP motion to ban COVID evictions passed with the unanimous support of the legislature.
Now, we need the Premier to make the motion an immediate reality. Doug Ford needs to sign an emergency order to ban COVID evictions today.
Help us organize to Stop COVID evictions:
1. Call and email the Premier and the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing. Ask them to honour the motion and stop COVID evictions.
Premier Doug Ford
416-325-1941
Hon. Steve Clark, Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing
416-585-7000
2. Tell your friends and family to contact their local MPP and tell them to stop COVID evictions
3. Sign the petition below to call on the provincial government to reinstate the moratorium on evictions and prohibit evictions for the nonpayment of rent for the period of the COVID-19 pandemic.
WHEREAS renters across Ontario are currently having a hard time paying rent and other bills, especially if they have lost their income during the Covid-19 pandemic;
WHEREAS rent across Ontario is already too high and many families are barely managing to live month-to-month; shelters in communities across Ontario are full and with homelessness already a crisis;
WHEREAS the rights of tenants are already limited, and the Ontario Landlord & Tenant Board is expediting eviction hearings without consideration to the public health consequence of pushing tenants out of their homes in the middle of pandemic;
That, in the opinion of this House, the provincial government should immediately take additional steps to help protect residential tenants by reinstating the temporary moratorium on residential evictions until Ontario has entered a post-pandemic recovery period and by prohibiting evictions for nonpayment of rent for the period of the COVID-19 pandemic.