First, thank you to everyone who took the time to complete our most recent survey.  I know it's probably the last thing you want to do but.... the information that we get is invaluable in our efforts to pressure the government to make amendments to existing financial aid programs and to enact a freeze on commercial evictions.  This time our survey went out not just to businesses and landlords in Toronto but also to those in Ottawa and Guelph.  And the information gathered shows that whether you're in a large, medium or small city in the Province of Ontario everyone is in the same difficult situation.

 

This morning Councillor Fletcher and MPP Peter Tabuns hosted a virtual media conference to announce the survey results.  They were joined by our Board Treasurer Philip Kocev (iPro Realty) and by our colleagues from Ottawa and Guelph.  

 

Attached please find 3 files:

- Survey results from commercial tenants

- Survey results from commercial landlords

- A one page summary of all results

 

I urge you to take some time to read through the results.  The results provide excellent tracking of the progression of where businesses were back in April through to June and some insight into where businesses feel they will be in July.  We all saw the media report yesterday that only 16,000 landlords from across Canada have applied to the CECRA - that is a devastatingly low number.

 

Thank you,

Susan