Principles Of Condo Governance: Limits Of Board Authority

"If we know that a group of people has the power to do something, it is natural to think that each of the members of the group, to some degree at least, has the power to do it." So says the moral philosopher, Peter French, in Responsibility Matters (University Press of Kansas, 1992), and so it seems to be in condominiums: That many condominium unit owners believe that because the board of directors has power to direct the condominium, to grant its permissions, to make its decisions, and to perform its acts, that each board member also has that authority. Whether or not that is true in some places, it is not the case in Ontario.

What the law says in Ontario

In Ontario, the law states:¹