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NDP MPP Jagmeet Singh tabled a bill Wednesday that would bring Tarion under the jurisdication of the Ontario
ombudsman and the auditor general.
By: Kenyon Wallace News reporter, Published on Wed Dec 10 2014
The Ontario auditor general and ombudsman should have the power to look under the hood of
Tarion, the private corporation created by the government to protect new homebuyers, according to
a private members bill tabled Wednesday at Queens Park.
The bill, entitled the Tarion Accountability and Oversight Act, would also force Tarion Warranty
Corp. to publish detailed information about builders track records, require employees who make
more than $100,000 annually to be included on the provincial sunshine list, and make the
corporations bylaws subject to government approval.
For a number of years, there has been growing concern that Tarion is not living up to its
responsibility to provide consumer rights protection, said NDP MPP Jagmeet Singh, who tabled the
private members bill. Largely, the problem around Tarion is that there is no proper oversight and
accountability.
The NDP introduced a similar bill last November but the legislation died when the provincial
election was called earlier this year.
Last year, a Star investigation found that Tarion keeps secret records of shoddy or incomplete work
by homebuilders. As a result, new homebuyers arent able to get a full picture from Tarion about
builders with deficiencies on their records.