Owner to be allowed to occupy one flat of duplex
Following from a recent story about the buyer of a duplex finding she can’t move in, now she can, at least into the ground‑floor flat, in September.
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Nicholas 11:30 on 2026-07-21 Permalink
At least the tribunal was able to discriminate based on immigration status! (They have a visa for two years and the owner can apply for PR for her parents and then an indefinite open work permit until that’s decided.)
R T 10:37 on 2026-07-22 Permalink
The decision implies that not only must you have residency status but anything less than permanent residency status is not OK, as “[t]he judge said there can’t be any uncertainty regarding the plan’s feasibility.” That strikes me as one of those things that sounds like common sense but is complicated by the details, as there are a lot of status that allow very long tenures in Canada and often with a clear path to PR.
Being on a supervisa is on the more tenuous side, as it doesn’t have temporary resident status, but these visas are valid for up to 10 years with any single visit up to 5 years, and living in Canada five—or almost ten—years is a long time! (And that’s not even considering how there’s often a clear pathway to PR!) Similarly, US citizens usually do not need temporary resident visas, but US citizen professionals can have work permits that effectively renew continuously as long as they’re employed, and some have been here for literally decades—long enough to raise Canadian citizen children from conception through graduating university!—but that, too, would probably be too uncertain. PhD programmes can take six years, followed by a work permit and (less so than before) a path to PR, but this nearly decade-long commitment to Canada would not be enough to meet a “can’t be any uncertainty” standard.
Meanwhile, a citizen or PR could be forced to move for any number of reasons—being transferred by work, getting a new job, needing a larger or smaller home, moving to a CHSLD, divorce or marriage, dying—because nothing in life is actually uncertain.
jeather 12:24 on 2026-07-23 Permalink
The super visa that she has does not lead to PR, and they closed the parent/grandparent PR path. But I am not entirely against “you can’t evict a tenant for a non-owner who doesn’t have a permanent right to stay in Canada”.