📍 Other, Ontario
Landlord's application to evict tenants for son's residential use dismissed.
Tenants contested the eviction notice claiming it was retaliatory.
Landlord failed to prove good faith intention to occupy.
Landlord did not meet the good faith requirement for eviction.
Landlord provided required one month's rent compensation.
Application dismissed due to lack of proven good faith.
Tenants ordered to repay the compensation to the landlord.
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