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Féderation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) organizes the FIFA World Cup (FWC). The 2026 FWC starts in June 2026, with Canada, Mexico, and the US as host nations. This thesis focuses on Canada to ascertain how the hosting of the 2026 FWC could impact the right to adequate housing in the host provinces/cities of Ontario/Toronto and British Columbia/Vancouver vis-à-vis the already precarious housing situation in these provinces/cities and the anticipated high demand that would be placed on the housing market by soccer fans and spectators coming into the host cities in 2026. The thesis thus analyzes the central issue of whether or not the hosting of the 2026 FWC in Toronto and Vancouver obliges the Government of Canada and the provincial/municipal governments of these host provinces/cities to initiate immediate appropriate legislative measures that address the possible impacts the 2026 FWC could have on right to adequate housing.