Airbnbs continue to proliferate
La Presse’s investigation has found that there are still hundreds of Airbnbs offered in ways that break the law using fake permit numbers and other methods that the authorities seem powerless to detect.
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Nicholas 15:36 on 2025-10-03 Permalink
This is just lack of provincial political will. When you sign up for CommunAuto they will check your driver’s licence validity with the SAAQ. All you have to do is pass a law saying that any platform that does not check the hotelier licence validity with the government is fined $10,000 per rental and/or after enough violations it’s shut down. Make it an offence for a credit card company or payment processor to do business with an illegal platform, subpoena everyone involved, shut things down. It’s not possible to completely stop short-term rentals done outside large platforms, but the “I know a guy” market is really small, so it’s not a big deal, you can’t catch every violation. But the scale of the problem is only possible because of the large platform, so go after them.
Ian 17:50 on 2025-10-03 Permalink
I wonder how many politicians in Montreal and for that matter the province run illegal AirBnbs …
Joey 19:01 on 2025-10-04 Permalink
About to get a whole lot worse…