Double Double please.
Posted on 02/21/2023 10:03:06 AM PST by jerod
One of three people fighting eviction notices they received from the local Tim Hortons franchisee in Souris, P.E.I., says the company has no legal grounds to make tenants leave their apartment building.
D.P. Murphy Inc., which operates a number of Tim Hortons franchises across Prince Edward Island, bought the apartment building at 4 Pleasant St. in November, and issued eviction notices to the tenants on Jan. 5.
According to documents filed by the company with the Island Regulatory and Appeals Commission, P.E.I.'s rentals regulator, the company plans to use the building to house temporary foreign workers.
"There's no legal grounds on which to do this at all," said Cécile Sly, one of the tenants taking on the corporation, its lawyer and now the provincial rentals regulator.
According to the eviction notices, D.P. Murphy said it's planning to convert the premises "to a use other than residential," which can be grounds for eviction under section 15(1)(b) of the Rental of Residential Properties Act.
Sly said they don't think that can apply, given the company has said it plans to house workers in the building.
They noted the property remains zoned as residential.
The mayor of Souris, JoAnne Dunphy, said there's been no application filed to change that zoning – but such a change would not be necessary in order for the building to be used for staff housing.
"If it was changing into a business such as a hotel, then it would mean the owner would have to apply for a zoning change and a business permit," Dunphy told CBC News via email.
"We certainly do not like to see anyone lose their homes," she added. "There is a shortage of housing in our area."
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I'm not saying it is 'slavery', but it's 'slavery'.
And they are evicting Canadian citizens with housing shortages everywhere to facilitate their human slavery... And yup... It's bad public relations.
I’d expect that if a renter pays $100/mo. The gov is willing to pay $200/mo to house illegals. Plus maybe more incentives.
Double Double please.
The Walt Disney Corporation does that to its Walt Disney World "cast members".
I wonder how long it will be before the US deems offing senior citizens just another form of abortion?
Are the people they’re evicting useless old White people that can’t work anymore?
Sounds about right... Instead of finding them a place to live, maybe they can just ‘assist’ them to a ‘free’ suicide.
Canada voted for it, embrace the suck, hosers.
Actually... Only 32% of us voted for ‘it’ (Blackface Trudeau and his liberals). 33% voted Conservative and 35% voted for complete lunacy.
Our parliamentary system doesn’t lend itself to well to multiple party elections. With 33% having voted Conservative, you would think that would make Conservatives the ruling party... But sadly, our parliamentary seat distribution left the Liberals with a minority.
Years and years of Socialist indoctrination has left many of Canada’s voters with the illusion that the government is our nanny from birth, until our eventual assisted suicide later on in life. Dystopian doesn’t begin to describe it. So yes... It is our fault.
Did you read the article? The government bureaucrats are involved, but as something along the lines of a neutral party, and to the extent that elected officials are weighing in, it is one the other side.
I don’t see the company winning in PEI.
It doesn’t surprise me that Tim’s is trying this—traditionally they have been 24/7, but some have had to cut hours because of staffing problems starting during COVID. Our local one was down to 8 hours a day (5 AM-3PM) but is now up to about 15 hours.
not so pleasant anymore
I owe my soul to the company store.
Sounds like the old mining town model.
I can say I’ve been to a Tim Horton’s on Prince Edwards Island, and I didn’t see an overwhelming need for more.
Their coffee sucks, but the donuts are passable.
Actually, that is what the Wisconsin Dells does for its local restaurants.
We met a lady from either Ukraine or the Czech Republic and she whispered what sort of housing and “lockdown” she had.
I guess it lets them say they worked in America, but between that encounter and a family a relative knew from a grocery store that had similarly bad visa conditions (and, for whom the most tragic situation was the father was an older doctor back in eastern Europe and the wife was in very poor health and the wife was pleading to my sister to marry him when she died—and even offered to divorce him to help it happen earlier).
These were obviously not H1-B visa jobs.
There are some really sad things out there.
"Also" would, I think, be a better word in this case. Disney absolutely does treat its "cast members" this way. Not surprised to find that other places do as well.
Tim Hortons coffee tastes like an ashtray smells
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