XPost: can.internet.highspeed, can.legal   
   From: Some@Guy.com   
      
   Geoffrey Welsh wrote:   
      
   > Surely you are not suggesting that nothing is permitted unless   
   > required by law?!?   
   >   
   > As far as I know a contract is valid so long as it does not violate   
   > any applicable law   
      
   Presumably the main purpose of the Ontario RTA (Residential Tenancy Act)   
   is to define the conditions for which a landlord can evict a tenant, and   
   to describe the process, the steps involved, how the legal system   
   interacts with that process, etc.   
      
   If a rental agreement includes a clause requiring the tenant to have   
   insurance, and if the tenant does not obtain or maintain said insurance,   
   then the landlord may not have any real recourse in law if the tenant   
   violates that part of the agreement.   
      
   The landlord may have no recourse or remedy because (a) the tenant not   
   having insurance does not constitute any real or realized harm or   
   dammage (financial or otherwise) to the landlord or his property, and   
   (b) the tenant not having insurance may not (or is not) sufficient   
   grounds under the Ontario RTA to undertake an eviction.   
      
   The same goes for pets.  I believe that you have the right to have a   
   pet, even if it's written into many rental agreements that you can't   
   have pets.   
      
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