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TORONTO — Ontario’s premier says she isn’t buying an argument from the development industry that stricter rent control will do more harm than good for renters in the province.

Kathleen Wynne’s comments on Tuesday came amid reports of some residents in Toronto seeing their rents double — a situation the premier called “unacceptable.”

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Developers and economists have warned that a new rent control law — which the Ontario government has said it’s developing — will discourage the construction of new rental properties, squeezing the already tight supply of rental homes.

Wynne threw cold water on those concerns, saying developers having been making that argument since she entered politics in 2003.

“The reality is there hasn’t been any more rental built, there have not been rental buildings built in any comprehensive way,” she said. “And so that argument does not actually hold water with me at this point.”