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Originally Posted by geotag277
It is interesting and not really a new issue in Canada in general. There is a similar issue in Montreal for example where condo board meetings can be run in either English or French, potentially posing a language barrier for a good percentage of owners.
The key thing here in this case is that Mandarin speakers bought a majority of units in the townhome strata. I don't necessarily see an issue with the AGM being run in this or that language, as the AGM is not a very important meeting when it comes to actual participation, and all requests for information are legally protected under the language laws.
If there were issues with communications/translations being poor and/or not accurate, the owners would have a legal basis to correct that problem.
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The complaint was regarding regular council meetings.
It really doesn't matter whatever lingustic minority owns the most units in a complex. The dealings should be conducted on one of Canada's official languages, as they are living in Canada.