Residential Tenancy Agreement (Standard Form of Lease)
Its a government mandate that upon tenant’s request the landlord must provide this document to the tenant, this document is the Government Standard Lease Agreement, they introduced it on April 30, 2018 for the purpose of protecting landlords and tenants from unjust and unfair clauses that landlords or tenants may put that are not in their favour, so they introduced this document. It’s a formality that is more important for protecting tenants from unjust clauses of landlords.
For further information
https://forms.mgcs.gov.on.ca/en/dataset/047-222
New Release
(February 07, 2018) news.ontario.ca