Tribunal administratif du logement (TAL)

What the TAL does

The Tribunal administratif du logement (TAL), Québec's housing tribunal, hears disputes arising from a residential lease. For a landlord, the most common are:

• rent fixing, when a tenant refuses an increase: you have one month from receiving the refusal to apply (art. 1947, Civil Code of Québec);
• permission to repossess a dwelling or evict a tenant who refused or didn't answer your notice;
• recovering unpaid rent and terminating the lease when the tenant is more than three weeks late (art. 1971 C.C.Q.);
• an access order, when a tenant refuses access to the dwelling without a valid reason.

The TAL also publishes the yearly percentages used to calculate rents (a 3.1% base rate in 2026), offers an online calculation tool and sells the mandatory lease form.

What the TAL doesn't do

It sets no maximum increase and recommends no percentage. Landlord and tenant can agree on any increase; the regulation's criteria only come into play when someone asks the tribunal to fix the rent.

Nor does it remove tenants itself: its decision is enforced by a bailiff (huissier), who serves at least 5 days' notice. To estimate an increase the way the tribunal would, use the rent increase calculator.

Learn more

• Lease and TAL

  Quebec rent increase 2027: calculation, deadlines and notices

  How the Tribunal administratif du logement's 2026 method works, which dates apply to a lease ending June 30, 2027, and what your rent increase notice must say.