#52487
The Hood
Flatchatter

    I find it a little humorous that it is being reported that no one saw this coming and terms to that effect.
    If anyone has ever read Cathy Sherry’s work then this was inevitable, if not in Cooper then in the near future perhaps by virtue of legislative reform.
    Honestly: should unaffected people be able to make by-laws that do little more than disadvantage others?
    Of course they shouldn’t and finally the Court of Appeal is expressing that.

    The power to make by-laws has previously been viewed as far too broad; finally a sensible constraint.

    The only annoying part, and it isn’t really that annoying, is that I now have to remove pages of argument from my strata review submission that related to the absolute idiocy of what amounted to mob rule in strata.

    Cooper at 48.   “…a liberal democracy is not a majoritarian dictatorship; it operates under legal constraints designed to protect minorities from oppression….”

    Shame on all those who subscribed to “mob rule”, you have made strata a disaster for way too long.