There have been numerous decisions in which human rights boards of inquiry have ruled on the matter of refusal of rental accommodations based on family status. Indeed, I sat as Chair in the first case interpreting s. 5(1)(b)(r) of the Act in 1994. In Grant v. Strug, February 28, 1994 [ CHRR Doc. 94-128] (N.S. Bd.Inq.) (unreported), the complainant signed a one-year lease with the respondent on March 6, 1990, for a two-bedroom apartment. She was pregnant at the time the tenancy commenced and had not been informed by the landlord or his agent that the building was for adults only.
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