What is the legal argument that bed bugs are not a landlord's fault?
Saskatchewan, Canada
The following excerpt is from N.G. v R.H., 2016 SKORT 339 (CanLII):
The landlord defends his position by stating that the bed bugs were the fault of the tenant. The landlord seems to raise the legal doctrine of res ipsa loquiter, meaning “it is logical”. That doctrine is no longer part of the law of Canada: Fontaine v. British Columbia (Official Administrator) 1998 CanLII 814 (SCC), [1998] 1 S.C.R. 424. The court said:
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