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Controversial Scarborough-Agincourt NDP candidate Tasleem Riaz is an apparent “energy hog” who was taken to the Landlord and Tenant Board last July for not paying her air-conditioning bill, her landlord told the Toronto Sun Friday.

Ed (he didn’t want last name used), the landlord of the 60-unit Thorncliffe Park building where Riaz resides, said of 60 tenants, she has the fourth highest hydro bills (heat, electricity and A/C) and three air-conditioners in her two-bedroom apartment.

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From May 2017 to May 2018, she used 5,577 kw/h compared to the lowest consumption at 1,202 kw/h.

A few years ago, Riaz had so many electrical appliances going, she “blew the main fuse” in her apartment, which had to be repaired, Ed added.

“She is head over heels most people in the building (in terms of energy consumption),” he said. “Yet the NDP talks (continually) about conservation.”

The hydro bills are covered in her rent but Riaz had agreed to pay the A/C herself as part of the tenancy agreement she struck with the management company in 2006, when she first moved into the Thorncliffe Dr. building.