to leases of immovable property, with additional rules applying specifically in the case of residential leases. In Québec, the rules are provided for in the CCQ while other provinces have enacted statutes with provisions specifically designed by the provincial legislature. There are broad similarities in the rules prescribed for leases, particularly with regard to residential tenancies, since the law regarding leases of immovable property in Canada has evolved post-Confederation in order to address the needs of the country's continually growing population of renters as well as the rise of property as an investment commodity; thus, the largest influences on each province have been legislation adopted by other provinces and the need to ensure legal uniformity for property investors. While the rules prescribing and limiting the contents of leases/tenancy agreements are specific and vary from province to province, such contracts generally subject to provincial human rights legislation (e.g. the Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms, the Human Rights Codes of Ontario and British Columbia, and the Saskatchewan Bill of Rights) which prohibit discrimination on prescribed characteristics against tenants and potential tenants. The Supreme Court's ruling in Vriend v Alberta generally requires provincial human rights legislation to provide protection at least on the basis of both the enumerated and analogous characteristics protected by Section 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. In all provinces, specialised human rights tribunals (such as the Human Rights Tribunals of Ontario and Québec) have jurisdiction over complaints brought under human rights legislation, while violations of provisions specifically applicable to residential tenancy contracts may fall either within the jurisdiction of specialised tribunals such as Ontario's Landlord and Tenant Board. Québec In Québec, a lease is defined as "a contract by which a person, the lessor, undertakes to provide another person, the lessee, in return for a rent, with" a specified property; and, as in the common law provinces, a lease may be fixed or indeterminate. The lessor is bound to warrant the lessee against legal disturbances to enjoyment of the leased property. A lessee is bound to act in such a way as not to disturb the normal enjoyment of the other lessees A lessee who is disturbed by another lessee or by persons whom another lessee allows to use or to have access to the property may obtain, according to the circumstances, a reduction of rent or the resiliation of the lease, if they