Canadian landlord advice

Em

Any canadian landlords out there? My bf and I are stuck in a situation where we need a guy to leave our home who has been paying us to live there.

This guy was my bfs friend who desperately needed somewhere for him and his child to stay so we let them in. It was been well over a year now and we need him gone due to issues with him as well as the house needing repairs and renos.

We didn’t expect he’d expect to be living there long term but it’s simply not a livable space for him and a his child to be and he is now straight up taking advantage of us.

The problem comes in where he has not signed a lease just because we didn’t expect him to be staying this long and we want to kick him out but unsure if we can. since he’s been paying to stay with us without a lease does that give him some property rights? We’ve been telling him since September he needs to leave and every month is a new excuse.

At this point should we just change the locks? Haha