The Tribunal’s reach grows in July 2027. The file it reads starts now.
Ontario’s condominium rules are changing in two steps. From December 31, 2026, owners who requisition a meeting use a new mandatory form, and boards have 20 days to respond. From July 1, 2027, the Condominium Authority Tribunal can also hear disputes about owners’ meetings: whether a required meeting such as the AGM was held, whether preliminary notices and notices of meeting went out on time with the content the rules require, whether owners were told of their right to requisition, and whether owners who had to call a meeting themselves get their reasonable costs back. The most the Tribunal can award in damages rises from $25,000 to $50,000.
What stays the same: the Tribunal decides on documents, and it will not hear disputes about what happens inside a meeting, such as votes, proxies or ballots. What changes is how many board decisions can end up in front of a Tribunal member reading a file. A board that already keeps a dated, delivered record of what it sends owners is practised at exactly the kind of record keeping these disputes turn on. A board whose records live in a volunteer director’s personal inbox has more exposure than it did.
YardRule keeps the compliance side of the file automatically. It does not send notices of owners’ meetings; keep those with the same discipline: a dated copy, how each one was delivered, and who received it. What YardRule puts on the record:
- Every compliance letter generated from templates aligned with the Condominium Act, 1998 — no invented “fines” Ontario boards have no power to levy.
- Delivery tracking on each letter, so the record shows when it went out and what happened to it — not just that someone remembers sending it.
- An append-only audit trail that survives board turnover: the file belongs to the corporation, not to whoever held the inbox that year.
- A board meeting pack for the period, ready to table at the AGM: every open issue, every letter sent, every delivery record, as one PDF.
In a hurry? Download the sample board meeting pack (PDF) — the period report a board tables at its meeting, generated from the demo community’s data.
The background, in plain language
- Sections 117 and 119 in plain language — when to write which letter, and how escalation actually works.
- Condo violation letter template (Ontario) — what a compliance letter must contain, with a full sample.
- Audit trails and the CAT — why delivery records decide disputes.
Summaries of the July 2026 regulations by Ontario condo counsel: Shibley Righton and Lash Condo Law.
This page is general information, not legal advice. Confirm how the coming changes apply to your corporation with a condo lawyer or the Condominium Authority of Ontario (CAO).