Alberta ACORN

Calgary Max Temp Bylaw NOW! 🔥🌡️☀️ 🥵
We know the Province may fight a Maximum Temperature Bylaw. We know housing standards have historically been treated as provincial jurisdiction. And we already know this provincial government is not planning to protect tenants from extreme heat.

But that cannot be an excuse for inaction while we wait for more renters to get sick and die in dangerously hot apartments.

Right now, Calgary already licenses rental properties and enforces fire safety standards through that system. We are saying the City should expand those protections to include extreme indoor heat and other serious health and safety protections.

If the Province wants to block municipalities from protecting tenants during deadly heat waves, then they should have to say that publicly. They should have to explain why they refuse to act themselves while also preventing cities from acting.

Waiting quietly for another level of government to maybe care someday will not save lives in the next heat wave.

Let’s force the issue into the open, build pressure and people power, and make it politically impossible to ignore that renters are being left unprotected as temperatures rise.

Calgary must choose to lead because we can’t afford to wait.