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Federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is accusing corporate landlords of bad behaviour.

Singh, in Toronto Tuesday for an election campaign event, says corporate landlords are buying up buildings, hiking rents and evicting people to make more money.

Singh was joined by Erin Filby, a renter who says she had two months’ rent mistakenly taken from her account and couldn’t pay her other bills until the money was put back.

Filby lives in a rent-controlled unit and says new tenants are being charged double what she pays.

Singh says the building Filby lives in was bought by Brookfield Investments while now-Liberal Leader Mark Carney was its chair.

Last year, the NDP introduced a bill that would have banned corporations from buying existing affordable apartments by restricting sales to individuals, non-profits, municipalities, agencies and co-ops.

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Speaking in Halifax Tuesday, Liberal Party Leader Mark Carney said the housing system is strained and affordability remains a challenge.

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