The director of advocacy and legal services at Advocacy Centre for Tenants Ontario, said it’s “absurd” to evict people during a health crisis that has left many unable to pay rent due to lost income.

“It’s bad enough in normal times for people to lose their homes and to be treated unfairly in an administrative proceeding. But it can be life or death in the kind of situation we’re in now,” Hale said in a recent interview.