COVID-19: Condominium Electronic Meetings And Time Extensions

In her blog of April 16, 2020, my colleague Vivian Iron discussed emergency orders that provide flexibility for corporations' meeting requirements. The original orders only provided flexibility in connection with the meeting requirements for corporations governed by the Corporations Act (Ontario) or the Business Corporations Act (Ontario). The Province of Ontario has now issued updated orders (available here) to permit corporations governed by the Condominium Act, 1998 (Ontario) to hold meetings virtually, and to extend the time period in which certain meetings must be held.

The Condominium Act, 1998, already allowed for electronic voting or attendance, however condominium corporations must have first enacted a bylaw passed in the traditional manner (i.e. in person or by proxy) before electronic voting or attendance could occur. In my experience the vast majority of condominium corporations never passed a bylaw of this nature before the current emergency period and