The Conveyancing and Law of Property Act | The Brian Mulroney Institute of Government

In 1950, the Government of Ontario amended the Conveyancing and Law of Property Act, which previously discriminated against home buyers, owners, tenants, and renters.
Specifically the Act mandated that home buyers agree that their property would "never be sold, assigned, transferred, leased to, and shall never be occupied by any person of Jewish, Hebrew, Semitic, Negro or coloured race or blood."
Section 21 of this legislation was amended to state that "Every covenant made after the 24th day of March, 1950, which but for this section would be annexed to and run with land and which restricts the sale, ownership, occupation or use of land because of the race, creed, colour, nationality, ancestry or place of origin of any person shall be void and of no effect."

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