Fri Feb 24, 2023 – 3:20 pm EST
(LifeSiteNews) — In what appears to be an attack on private property, a 2022 government watchdog report suggests that the Government of Canada should start confiscating the buildings of landlords who “violate human rights,” such as the “right to adequate housing.”
A Canadian Human Rights Commission report that was published in June 2022 has suggested that the Canadian government should appropriate the private property of land owners who “violate human rights,” and that they should also ban such landlords from private lending.
The Canadian government ought to “expropriate housing owned by financial firms when their business strategies are known to violate human rights including the right to adequate housing whether via plans to raise rents, ‘renovict’ or reduce the quality of housing,” reads the report titled The Financialization Of Multi-Family Rental Housing In Canada.
The report provides an overview of the rental market since the 1990s in an attempt to show how financial firms and rental property owners use these buildings as money-making investments by reducing their costs while at the same time increasing their revenues. The report suggests that this is detrimental to tenants who often
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