Professor Michelle Norris:

Our view was that there needs to be more active regulation of the rental sector. On the one hand, there have been an unbelievable number of changes to rent regulations which have undermined the confidence of investors. On the other hand, the actual enforcement of many of these changes is extremely weak. We felt that the Residential Tenancies Board needs to take a more active approach to identifying non-registered landlords and a more active approach to enforcement.