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Evicting Tenants with Pets in Ontario

Evicting Tenants with Pets in Ontario
Ontario Real Estate Source
By Brian Madigan LL.B.
Are tenants allowed pets? And, if they have them, can you evict them?
Have a look at the relevant provision under the Residential Tenancies Act:
“No pet” provisions void
"14.  A provision in a tenancy agreement prohibiting the presence of animals in or about the residential complex is void."
So, any clause in a residential lease under the Act would be void.
What about boisterous, unruly and objectionable pets? Can a landlord terminate the lease?
Have look at s, 76 of the Act:
 
"Application based on animals
76. (1) If an application based on a notice of termination under section 64, 65 or 66 is grounded on the presence, control or behaviour of an animal in or about the residential complex, the Board shall not make an order terminating the tenancy and evicting the tenant without being satisfied that the tenant is keeping an animal and that,
(a) subject to subsection (2), the past behaviour of an animal of that species has substantially interfered with the reasonable enjoyment of the residential complex for all usual purposes by the landlord or other tenants;
(b) subject to subsection (3), ... more

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