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ARTICLE · 04 JANUARY 2021

Bill 229 - Protect, Support And Recover From COVID-19 Act (Budget Measures), 2020

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No evictions are permitted for rent default during the NEP

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As most of you are aware, the Canada Emergency Commercial Rent Assistance program ("CECRA") for commercial tenants and landlords  ended September 30, 2020 and it has now been replaced with the Canada Emergency Rent Subsidy program ("CERS") intended to assist:

  1. commercial tenants with their lease rent obligations; and
  2. owners of owner occupied commercial property with their mortgage interest, tax and insurance payments).

(Please click here to read our previous article on the CERS program).

In addition to the CERS program, on December 8, 2020, Bill 229, Protect, Support and Recover from COVID-19 Act (Budget Measures), 2020 ("Act") received Royal Assent. Schedule 5 of the Act, amongst other things, extended the protection of tenants from evictions1 and distraint for rent default by deleting Part IV of the Commercial Tenancies Act, Ontario and replacing it with provisions that generally provide as follows:

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