 Like Little Towns. In speaking with friends who serve on municipal Councils and Boards, I am struck by the utter disbelief they display upon hearing of the lack of accountability of our Boards of Directors and Property Management Companies and of the baffling lack of "enforcement" on the part of the Ontario Government. Each and every one, without exception, has stated that if the antics of
some Directors, Officers and Property Managers of some condominium
Corporations were to occur in the sphere of "municipal governance",
those responsible would be facing the scrutiny of the Ministry of
Municipal Affairs and Housing, the Ministry of the Attorney General and
investigations by provincial auditors and regional and provincial
police services. The Government would surely spare no resources or
expense in bringing those responsible for such actions to account for
their negligent, incompetent and perhaps even criminal behaviour.
We have towns in this Province with smaller populations than many
individual Ontario condominium Corporations yet the Government has
consistently refused to acknowledge that the rights of unit Owners
(taxpayers) to good governance and fiscal accountability are worthy of
the same standard of protection and enforcement of the law as those of
other taxpayers in Ontario.
Condominium lawyers and the Government alike will argue that
condominium unit Owners have the "ultimate" recourse which is the right
to unseat a negligent or incompetent Board at every Annual General
Meeting or at a Requisitioned meeting. Perhaps but so do the residents
of each and every municipality in Ontario yet these same individuals
would never dream of telling the media or the residents of a town that
they have the "ultimate" recourse which is the right to unseat a
negligent or incompetent Council at the next municipal election. If
those things that go on in some of our Corporations were discovered in
a town with a smaller population than that of your condominium
Community, those residents would never be left in like situations by
the provincial Government until the next municipal election. Heads
would roll NOW ! Changes would be made NOW ! Government would step in
NOW !
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 Some Boards of Directors, with help from some property management companies and condominium lawyers, intentionally and with malice, refuse to follow the governing documents of their condominium Corporations (Declaration, By-laws & Rules) as well as provincial legislation and regulations. These Boards make up their own rules as they go along and usually in order to shirk their responsibilities and/or to intimidate and oppress unit Owners, particularly unit Owners who oppose them. They will choose to apply certain Rules to certain unit Owners and not to others. Why do they do this? Because they can!
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As Provincial Governments do not enforce their own "condominium" laws, much less commit to a "central registry of Condominium Corporations", CAFCOR felt compelled to find out exactly how many Corporations there are in Ontario. A CAFCOR member spent an entire day and a half on the telephone with every single "Land Registry" and "Land Titles" Office in the Province. The result? As of February 7th, 2007, In Ontario alone there were 8,636 registered Condominium Corporations. ....
The Canadian Alliance for Condominium Owners' Rights has
been founded to ensure that unit Owners have a collective voice at the
table. We are an organization of unit Owners dedicated to the service
of all unit Owners.
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8480 Condominiums in Ontario
The High Price Of Condominium Arbitration. A condominium is a community of people with common interests and the theory is that the community should try to resolve disputes by agreement rather than the adversarial process. Mediation is seen as a “win-win” process which allows disputes to be resolved by a communication process leading to a common understanding of the needs of the condominium community. Read more...
The minutes of Board meetings are important legal documents, yet many Corporations do not pay enough attention to them. Some Corporations put far too much detail in them, while other Boards keep minutes that do not accurately or completely reflect the Board's decisions. The purpose of the minutes is to provide a permanent legal record of the actions of the Board.