Green Party Leader Andrew Weaver is urging the province to adopt a task force recommendation that rental hikes be tied only to inflation. The Rental Housing Task Force is calling on the province to scrap the current model of inflation plus a two per cent hike, which has been in place since 2004. The change would drop the scheduled maximum rent increase for next year to 2.5 per cent — the rate of inflation — from the 4.5 per cent. Weaver says the recommendation is a strong step toward addressing current and ongoing rental affordability.