. Windsor Housing Providers Inc. v. Windsor (City)
In Windsor Housing Providers Inc. v. Windsor (City) (Ont CA, 2025) the Ontario Court of Appeal dismissed an appeal, here from a dismissed JR attempting to quash a municipal by-law that licensed "residential rental housing".
Here the court references the doctrine of 'paramountcy':
[13] As we explain, none of the impugned provisions breaches the Charter or is inconsistent with provincial legislation. We note further that by-laws should be read as consistent with federal and provincial legislation unless obeying one necessarily means disobeying the other: Croplife Canada v. Toronto (City) (2005), 2005 CanLII 15709 (ON CA), 75 O.R. (3d) 357 (C.A.), at para. 63, leave to appeal refused, [2005] S.C.C.A. No. 329; R. v. Pahal, 2023 ONCA 13, at para. 46.
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