Speaking about nothing...
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Drever’s Bill 204 would amend the Residential Tenancies Act to allow domestic violence victims to break a lease early and without penalty. If a person can demonstrate they or their children are in danger, they can receive a signed certificate from a list of professionals — such as a judge, nurse, police officer or social worker — compelling the landlord to terminate the lease. The law would also effectively allow a victim to remove an abuser’s name from a lease.
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Anyone in Alberta can tell their landlord to f.. off and leave their lease anytime they want to. In fact, most bad renters do just that: they delay paying rent, wait for the legislated eviction process to take its course, while living free and then leave making their deposit pay for their last month rent. Residential rental leases in Alberta are completely toothless. While technically a tenant is on the hook for the full lease term, enforcing and recovering these costs is practically impossible. I do not have access to legal database, but if one of our lawyers here searches it, I doubt they'll find many examples of landlords successfully recovering their missed lease revenues as penalties. So, if (more like when) Drever's bill passes, it would make victims of domestic violence entitled to a return of their deposit. Wow, what an accomplishment.