[mattm]

One possible reason is that house prices have gone up so much in the past few years that people can sell quickly and make a huge profit. If you have people renting, you can't just kick them out immediately if you want to sell. Renters would be a liability in this case.

[jdavis703]

I don't know about Canada, but in California you can evict people in 30 days... If you (the tenant) really work the court system, maybe it'll take up to 50 days. 50 days should be enough time to kick someone out and put the house for sale.

[breitling]

Can't do that in Canada so quickly. In Toronto at least, the landlord is not allowed to evict the tenant even if they have stopped paying rent. It can take months and months of court visits.

One reasoning I heard is because our winters are so brutal, it would be inhumane to kick people out in the cold.