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Court rules against tenant. Standard Quebec rental board form needs updating, owners' group says
Jump to full article: Montreal Gazette (ca), 2008-04-19
Author: JAN RAVENSBERGEN, The Gazette
Intro: A court ruling that orders a Montreal woman not to smoke in the flat she rents could change the way leases are written in Quebec, if a provincial landlords' association has its way.
The Quebec Court verdict, issued Thursday, overturned a Quebec rental board decision and has sparked a request from the province's largest landlords' lobby for changes in the standard Quebec rental board lease.
The landlords' group, the Corporation des propriétaires immobiliers du Québec, urged yesterday that the standard lease should include boxes to be marked to allow or ban smoking in any dwelling that is being rented. The standard lease form has been largely unchanged since 1994.
"We are studying the implications," Jean-Pierre Le Blanc, a spokesperson for the provincial Régie du logement
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