Can I claim for lost ability to do housework after an injury in Ontario?

Yes. Ontario courts recognize that the ability to do housework, yard work, and other domestic tasks has real economic value, even though it was unpaid before the injury, because someone now has to pay for that help or the household simply goes without it. A claim for loss of housekeeping capacity compensates for that lost ability, separately from claims for lost employment income, and it applies whether you hire someone to replace those services or a family member steps in to do them for free, since the value of the lost capacity itself is what is being compensated, not just out-of-pocket replacement costs.

Evidence for this kind of claim typically includes your own and family members' descriptions of what you did before the injury, how your ability to do those tasks has changed, and estimates of what it would reasonably cost to hire someone to do the same work. Because this loss can be easy to overlook compared to more obvious wage losses, it is worth documenting specific pre-injury and post-injury tasks in detail rather than describing the change only in general terms, since specificity tends to make this part of a claim considerably stronger.