Main Points:

• Establish a Condo Review Board for quicker, less expensive dispute resolution.
• Extend Tarion’s New Home Warranties Plan to cover conversion condos (e.g. lofts).
• Simplifiy the process for installing renewable energy and other energy efficient technologies.
• Requires better noise protection standards for condominiums.
• Require that half of Tarion’s directors have experience in consumer protection and advocacy.
• Introduce the use good faith language in declarations (purchase contracts).
• Require developers and property managers to disclose conflicts of interest prior to performance audits.
• Provide training support to volunteer condo boards through the Condo Review Board.
• Require developers to deposit 0.5% of the building’s value with the Condo Review Board until a condo board certifies that the condo was properly built.
• Ensure that developers can’t ask owners to move into a building before it is fully built.
• Provide a 5-year full warranty on all major structural components (electrical, elevators, etc).
• Provide one vote per owner regardless of number of units owned.
• Require property managers to be licensed by the Province.
• Extend developer responsibility for condominium fees from one to three years.
• Require developers to disclose all previous business names used to construct condo projects.

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	You can review Bill 72 by following the links below:	Additional Links:
	Outline of the main points - PDF (Bill 72 Summary - MPP Package) Full version of Bill 72	Inviation to Bill 72 Second Reading (Your Invitation to Queens Park) A Petition to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario

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.