I Filed With the Human Rights Tribunal Again, but for Reprisal

I filed another application with the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario (HRTO) again, but this time, it's for reprisal. As many of you know, I had originally filed an application with the HRTO in July 2024, against the County of Simcoe, the City of Barrie, Simcoe County Housing and Barrie Housing. But I withdrew it on January 28, 2025 for various reasons, a couple of those reasons being:

• I had filed another lawsuit through the Ontario Superior Court of Justice the day before, for the same thing pretty much, because we can’t wait five years to get this dealt with; and

• The HRTO was clearly about to dismiss it, one of the reasons being that it didn’t have jurisdiction over allegations of fraud.

You’ve also probably seen my post about Barrie Housing filing an Form N7 with the Landlord and Tenant Board (LTB), and sending me a Notice of Hearing, in which the hearing is being held on June 11, 2025, so Barrie Housing can try to evict me.

Barrie Housing filed the N7 on February 11, 2025, and sent me Notice on February 13, 2025. And as I previously mentioned, I withdrew my first HRTO application on January 28, 2025. So, exactly 14 days after I withdrew my first HRTO application, Barrie Housing contacted another law firm, and filed with the LTB to evict me, accusing me of defaming Barrie Housing due to my ongoing attempts to stop Barrie Housing from stealing from its tenants.

Over this past weekend, I submitted a Form 1 Application with the HRTO, and last night, they sent me this Confirmation of Receipt of Application:

2025-60645-I Confirm Receipt of Application.pdf

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Request to Refuse to Evict

According to Tribunal Watch, the LTB is Ontario's largest tribunal and they see "over 80,000 applications annually."

Also over the weekend, I was reading through the Residential Tenancies Act again, and I learned about section 83, which states:

Power of Board, eviction

83 (1) Upon an application for an order evicting a tenant, the Board may, despite any other provision of this Act or the tenancy agreement, (a)  refuse to grant the application unless satisfied, having regard to all the circumstances, that it would be unfair to refuse.

The Residential Tenancies Act also states there are some circumstances in which refusal to evict are required, the following circumstances are relevant in my case:

(a)  the landlord is in serious breach of the landlord’s responsibilities under this Act or of any material covenant in the tenancy agreement;

(b)  the reason for the application being brought is that the tenant has complained to a governmental authority of the landlord’s violation of a law dealing with health, safety, housing or maintenance standards; and

(c)  the reason for the application being brought is that the tenant has attempted to secure or enforce his or her legal rights.

So, a few days ago, I submitted my Request to Refuse to Evict to the LTB (and Barrie Housing’s other lawyer). I also included my affidavit from the derivative action case, which is a timeline of events that took place regarding my allegations of fraud. I also submitted the most recent Endorsements from the various judges I’ve seen since December 31, 2024, the withdraw correspondence I’ve had with the HRTO, and the correspondence I’ve had with the Ministry of the Attorney General (MAG) so far (regarding the lawsuit I’m going to file on April 21, 2025).

Does it sound like I’m worried? Yeah, I’m pretty worried about getting evicted. As seen with the trafficked girl’s eviction case, she was unlawfully evicted and the HRTO is currently considering dismissing her human rights application because the respondents said its already been dealt with through the LTB.

Our system is broken and I’m doing everything I can to shed light on this fact. Homelessness is wreaking havoc on our communities and its because vulnerable people are not treated as human beings.

Policies need to change.

We all need to do better.