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Toronto’s public housing agency — Canada’s largest landlord — pleaded guilty Thursday to violating the Ontario fire code after the deaths of four people last year in a fire at a building for seniors.

The Toronto Community Housing Corporation accepted a $100,000 fine, the maximum penalty for the offence. But the hearing Thursday at a west-end Toronto court did little to satisfy the families of the four killed in the fire on Feb. 5, 2016.

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“$100,000 for four lives? That’s absolutely nothing,” said Narry Moussavi, whose 86-year-old mother died in the blaze.

“Just like what happened in England,” she said, referring to the massive fire at the Grenfell public housing tower in London that has caused “a crisis of faith” in Britain’s public institutions, as the Associated Press put it.

The Toronto fire, at an apartment complex at 1315 Neilson Road in Scarborough, started in a cluster of three chairs tucked in an alcove in a fifth-floor hallway. Inspectors found that the fire was set intentionally, and Toronto Police are still conducting an arson investigation.