As a petition is being pushed to end pet restrictions in rental housing, some organizations representing landlords in Canada are cautioning voiding such clauses in the proposed federal renters’ bill of rights could create conflicts.
Last month, Humane Canada started a parliamentary petition asking the House of Commons to include a specific provision for tenants with pets in the proposed bill of rights, calling for “no pet” clauses to be voided “so that tenants with pets are no longer excluded from rental housing.”
Cameron Choquette, the CEO of the Saskatchewan Landlord Association, said in an interview with Global News that landlords recognize that pets are growing in the rental space and can be important for people, but said there needs to be flexibility for rental housing providers.
“If buildings that have current tenants in them, perhaps with allergies or maybe it’s a small building, that flexibility would allow a rental housing provider to have a no pet building …