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Get My Free Estimate →You do not vote on the budget. Section 27(1) of the Condominium Act, 1998 gives the board the management of the corporation, section 84(1) obliges owners to contribute in the declaration proportions, and nothing in the Act or O. Reg. 48/01 requires owner approval of the annual budget or of a fee increase — the budget is not even among the items section 69(1) requires to go before the annual general meeting. The phrase “special assessment” does not appear anywhere in the Act: there is no cap, no approval requirement and no prescribed notice. Section 97 does require a 66⅔ per cent vote for a substantial change to the common elements — but section 97(1) deems like-for-like repair and maintenance not to be an improvement, so a multi-million dollar garage or window replacement needs no vote at all. Your real tools are the $100 status certificate, delivered within ten days, and the 15 per cent requisition right in section 46 — which is repealed and replaced on 31 December 2026.
Your common expenses went up again, or a special assessment landed, and you want to know whether anyone can stop it. The honest answer is mostly no, and understanding exactly why is the difference between wasting a year at meetings and doing the one thing that works.
You do not vote on the budget. You never did.
This surprises almost every owner, so here is the full basis rather than one quotation.
Section 27(1) of the Condominium Act, 1998 provides that “a board of directors shall manage the affairs of the corporation.” Section 84(1) provides that owners “shall contribute to the common expenses in the proportions specified in the declaration.” Section 45(1) requires a vote at a meeting only for “anything that this Act requires to be approved by a vote” — and nothing in the Act requires a vote on the budget.
Look at what section 69(1) requires the board to place before the annual general meeting: the financial statements as approved by the board, the auditor’s report, and any further financial information the by-laws require. The budget is not on that list. Section 45(3) lets an owner “raise for discussion any matter relevant to the affairs and business of the corporation” — raise for discussion, not vote on.
I searched the full consolidated text of the Act and of O. Reg. 48/01. There is no provision anywhere requiring owner approval of the annual budget or of a common expense increase. Your remedies are electoral and procedural. There is no budget veto and there never was one.
CAO’s own guide describes the process consistently: the budget is “usually prepared by management for the board’s approval or by the board themselves if they are self-managed”, and determining what to assess owners is “one of the most important financial decisions made each year by the board of directors.”
The reserve fund plan is implemented in 30 days, and you cannot block it
Section 94 sets out the sequence. Read the deadlines carefully because the last one is the point.
| Step | Timing under section 94 |
|---|---|
| Board receives the reserve fund study | — |
| Board reviews it and proposes a funding plan | Within 120 days of receiving the study (s. 94(8)) |
| Board sends owners a summary of the study, a summary of the plan, and a statement of any differences between them | Within 15 days of proposing the plan (s. 94(9)) |
| Board implements the plan | After 30 days from complying with s. 94(9) (s. 94(10)) |
There is no owner approval step in section 94 and no mechanism in it for owners to block the plan. The thirty days is a notice period, not a consultation. And section 95(2) is equally direct: “The board does not require the consent of the owners to make an expenditure out of a reserve fund.”
Section 93(5) sets the floor before a first study: contributions must be the greater of the section 93(6) amount and ten per cent of the budgeted common expenses exclusive of the reserve fund. After that, section 93(6) requires the amount “reasonably expected to provide sufficient funds for the major repair and replacement… calculated on the basis of the expected repair and replacement costs and the life expectancy” of the elements.
The three classes of study are set by section 28 of O. Reg. 48/01: a comprehensive study, an updated study based on a site inspection, and an updated study not based on a site inspection.
Special assessments: the Act does not even name them
The phrase “special assessment” does not appear anywhere in the Condominium Act, 1998. There is no cap on the amount. No owner approval requirement. No prescribed notice period. No prescribed form. The authority is the general one: the board manages, and owners contribute in the declaration proportions.
The Act acknowledges the practice only in backward-looking disclosure to purchasers — section 76(1)(c) requires a status certificate to state assessments levied since the budget date to increase the reserve fund contribution, and section 18(1)(e) of the regulation requires the same for the operating fund.
Where a vote is required, and the distinction that decides it
Section 97 does require owner approval — but for changes to the common elements, not for the assessment that pays for them.
| Threshold | What section 97 requires |
|---|---|
| No notice, board resolution alone | Where necessary to comply with an agreement or statute, or in the board’s opinion necessary for safety or security or to prevent imminent damage, or where the estimated cost is no more than the greater of $1,000 and 1 per cent of annual budgeted common expenses (s. 97(2)) |
| Notice plus a 30-day requisition window | Owners must be told the estimated cost and how the corporation proposes to pay it, and told of their right to requisition a meeting within 30 days (s. 97(3)) |
| 66⅔ per cent of all units must vote in favour | Where the change is substantial (s. 97(4)) |
| What counts as substantial | Estimated total cost exceeding 10 per cent of the annual budgeted common expenses for the current fiscal year, or where the board elects to treat it as substantial (s. 97(6)) |
Now the sentence that decides most real cases. Section 97(1) provides that where the corporation repairs or maintains using materials “as reasonably close in quality to the original as is appropriate in accordance with current construction standards”, the work “shall be deemed not to be an addition, alteration or improvement” for the purposes of section 97.
So a four-million-dollar garage rehabilitation or a full window replacement, done like for like, is not a substantial change. It gets no owner vote at any dollar figure and can be funded by an uncapped special assessment. A two-hundred-thousand-dollar lobby upgrade in a corporation with a $1.5 million budget does need sixty-six and two-thirds per cent.
That is the whole architecture: owners vote on making the building nicer, not on keeping it standing.
The status certificate is your best tool, and it costs $100
Section 18(4) of O. Reg. 48/01 caps the fee: it “shall not exceed $100, inclusive of all applicable taxes.” Section 76(3) requires delivery within 10 days of the request and payment.
What it must contain includes, among much else:
- Any increase in common expenses the board has declared since the budget date, and the reason for it (s. 76(1)(b))
- Any assessments levied since the budget date to increase the reserve fund, and the reason (s. 76(1)(c))
- A copy of the current budget, the last audited financial statements and the auditor’s report (s. 76(1)(i))
- A statement about the most recent reserve fund study and updates, the amount in the fund, and “current plans, if any, to increase the reserve fund” (s. 76(1)(m))
- Substantial changes the board has proposed but not implemented (s. 76(1)(n))
- Outstanding judgments and the status of all legal actions (s. 76(1)(h))
- Any knowledge of circumstances that may result in an increase in common expenses (O. Reg. 48/01, s. 18(1)(f))
The three subsections nobody talks about. Section 76(4): if a certificate omits required material information, it “shall be deemed to include a statement that there is no such information.” Section 76(5): a corporation that misses the ten days is deemed to have given a certificate saying there is no default, no declared increase and no assessment. Section 76(6): the certificate “binds the corporation… as against a purchaser or mortgagee of a unit who relies on the certificate.”
Read together, those are the strongest consumer protections in the Act and they are badly under-reported. A late or silent certificate is deemed clean, and a deemed-clean certificate binds the corporation against a purchaser who relied on it. If you are buying, order it, read every page of it, and keep it.
What an owner can actually do
| Right | Threshold | Section |
|---|---|---|
| Requisition a meeting of owners | Owners of at least 15 per cent of the units | s. 46(1) |
| Remove a director | More than 50 per cent of all units voting in favour | s. 33(1) |
| Quorum at a meeting of owners | Owners of 25 per cent of the units | s. 50(1) |
| Vote at all | Not entitled if contributions are in arrears 30 days or more | s. 49(1) |
Under the current section 46, on receiving a valid requisition the board must either add the business to the next annual general meeting agenda if the requisitionists ask, or “call and hold a meeting of owners within 35 days.” If it does not, section 46(5) lets a requisitionist call the meeting themselves, to be held within 45 days — and section 46(6) requires the corporation to reimburse the reasonable costs of doing so.
All of that changes on 31 December 2026. The consolidation carries the note that on that day section 46 is repealed and replaced. Under the new section: owners in arrears thirty days or more are disqualified from requisitioning; the requisition must be on a prescribed form; the board has a prescribed 20 days to respond in writing, and silence is deemed acceptance; if accepted, the meeting must be held within 40 days after the response period; if refused, requisitionists have 10 days to revise and 20 days to take it to the Condominium Authority Tribunal or the Superior Court, or the requisition is deemed abandoned. The current self-help route in sections 46(4) to (6), including corporate reimbursement of the requisitionist’s costs, disappears. If you are contemplating a requisition, the rules you act under depend on which side of New Year’s Eve you are on.
What happens if you simply do not pay
Withholding is not an option and it is not a defence. Section 84(3)(b) states that an owner is not exempt from contributing “even if… the owner is making a claim against the corporation.”
| Step | Timing under sections 85 and 86 |
|---|---|
| Lien arises on default | Automatically, for the unpaid amount “together with all interest owing and all reasonable legal costs and reasonable expenses” incurred in collection (s. 85(1)) |
| Written notice to the owner | At least 10 days before the certificate of lien is registered (s. 85(4)) |
| Lien expires | Three months after the default unless a certificate of lien is registered within that time (s. 85(2)) |
| Notice to encumbrancers | On or before the day the certificate is registered (s. 86(3)) — and the lien loses priority over an encumbrance if this notice is not given (s. 86(5)) |
| Enforcement | The lien “may be enforced in the same manner as a mortgage” (s. 85(6)) |
And the priority is severe. Section 86(1): the lien “has priority over every registered and unregistered encumbrance even though the encumbrance existed before the lien arose”, subject only to Crown claims other than by mortgage, and municipal or education tax claims.
The collateral consequences compound. Section 29(2)(d) removes a director immediately where a certificate of lien is registered against their unit and not discharged within 90 days. Section 49(1) removes the vote at 30 days of arrears. Section 87(1) lets the corporation require your tenant to pay it the lesser of the default and the rent due. And section 1.36(4)(a) excludes sections 85 and 86 from the Condominium Authority Tribunal entirely — there is no Tribunal relief from a lien.
What the published data actually shows
There is exactly one Ontario dataset on this and it is thinner than the coverage suggests. The Condominium Authority of Ontario surveyed corporations and owners in April 2023 and published its findings in September 2024: 724 corporation responses out of roughly 13,000 corporations, and 5,986 owner responses of whom 87 per cent were current or former directors.
CAO’s own disclaimer, which deserves to be quoted whenever the numbers are: the report presents “preliminary data” and the results are “not meant to be conclusive”, with limitations including “sample size and representation among condo corporations”.
| Annual increase in common expenses fees | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 (partial) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Less than 10% | 91% | 89% | 84% |
| 10% to 20% | 7% | 9% | 13% |
| 21% or more | 2% | 2% | 3% |
CAO’s own reading: “a large majority (over 80%) increased their common expenses fees by less than 10% for 2021, 2022 and 2023, with a slight upward trend in corporations reporting a 10% to 20% increase.” And separately: “Nearly two-thirds of corporations surveyed (64%) received recommendations to increase their contributions by more than 3%.”
| Special assessments and loans (% of respondent corporations) | Special assessment | Loan |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 3.6% | 0.7% |
| 2019 | 3.3% | 0.8% |
| 2020 | 4.3% | 0.4% |
| 2021 | 4.0% | 0.1% |
| 2022 | 5.9% | 0.7% |
| 2023 (partial, to May) | 4.7% | 0.6% |
Across the whole period: “Between 2018 and 2023, 16% of respondent condo corporations reported issuing a special assessment, while 3% reported seeking a loan.”
One figure I will not give you. CAO published average special assessment amounts per voting unit, but its narrative and its own Figure 9 assign the later years inconsistently. The six annual averages published are $10,050, $3,525, $1,711, $2,877, $2,913 and $3,688, and the report attaches its own caveat that the 2018 figure “includes a few respondent corporations who reported much larger amounts… which may be a data entry error”. Because the report contradicts itself on which year is which, I am not stating a current-year figure. The defensible statement is the 2018 high of $10,050 per voting unit, with the caveat attached.
The number everyone quotes, and why it is not a condo fee
Statistics Canada’s Survey of Household Spending reports, for Ontario, average household expenditure on “condominium fees for owned living quarters”: $478 in 2017, $402 in 2019, $598 in 2021 and $950 in 2023.
That is an average across all Ontario households, not across condominium-owning households. It is the product of how many households own condominiums and what they pay. The rise from $478 to $950 reflects both the growth of the condominium tenure share and fee increases, in unknown proportions. It is not a condo fee. Statistics Canada publishes no average monthly condominium fee for Ontario that I could locate, and condominium fees are not broken out as a named series in the Consumer Price Index.
What CAO does say plainly, in its reserve fund guide: “Newer buildings typically have fewer reserve fund expenditures, but generally the funding needs of the reserve fund will increase as the condominium corporation ages,” and failing to do necessary major repairs “could result in the common elements degrading to the point of diminishing the overall value of the condominium corporation.”
What I would actually do
- Order the status certificate on your own unit and read all of it. One hundred dollars, ten days. Section 76(1)(m) tells you the reserve fund position and current plans to increase it. Section 76(1)(n) tells you what substantial changes have been proposed but not implemented. That is where next year’s increase is visible before it is announced.
- Read the reserve fund study, not the summary. Section 94(9) entitles you to a summary; the study itself is a record of the corporation and you can request it. The assumed inflation rate in it is the single biggest driver of your contribution.
- Ask whether the work is repair or improvement. Section 97(1) decides whether you get a vote, and like-for-like replacement is deemed not to be an improvement no matter what it costs.
- If you want change, run for the board or requisition a meeting. Fifteen per cent of units to requisition, more than fifty per cent of all units to remove a director. Those are the levers that exist.
- If you are going to requisition, mind the date. The rules change entirely on 31 December 2026, and the cost-reimbursement route disappears.
- Never withhold payment to make a point. Section 84(3)(b) removes the defence, section 49(1) removes your vote at thirty days, the lien takes priority over your mortgage, and the Tribunal cannot help you with it.
What is not on this page
No case law. No “typical” condo fee per square foot, because no source publishes one. No current-year average special assessment, because CAO’s own report contradicts itself on it. And no claim that Ontario reserve funds are underfunded — CAO has published one preliminary survey with a roughly five per cent response rate among corporations, and it does not say that.
Buying or selling a condominium in Etobicoke or the GTA?
Send me the building and I will read the status certificate and the reserve fund position with you before you commit — what the current plans to increase the fund actually say, what substantial changes have been proposed but not implemented, and what that means for the fee you will be paying in two years. If the numbers say walk away, I will tell you that. No cost and no obligation.
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Frequently asked questions
Do condo owners vote on the budget in Ontario?
No. Section 27(1) of the Condominium Act, 1998 provides that the board of directors shall manage the affairs of the corporation, and section 84(1) obliges owners to contribute to the common expenses in the proportions specified in the declaration. Section 45(1) requires a vote only where the Act itself requires one, and nothing in the Act or O. Reg. 48/01 requires owner approval of the budget or of a fee increase. The budget is not even among the items section 69(1) requires the board to place before the annual general meeting. Section 45(3) allows an owner to raise any matter for discussion at the AGM, which is not the same as a vote.
Can owners stop a reserve fund contribution increase?
Not under section 94. The board has 120 days from receiving a reserve fund study to propose a funding plan, 15 days from proposing it to send owners a summary of the study and the plan, and then implements the plan 30 days after complying with that notice requirement. There is no owner approval step and no mechanism in section 94 for owners to block the plan. Section 95(2) is equally direct: the board does not require the consent of the owners to make an expenditure out of a reserve fund.
Is there a limit on a special assessment in Ontario?
No. The phrase special assessment does not appear anywhere in the Condominium Act, 1998. There is no cap on the amount, no owner approval requirement, no prescribed notice period and no prescribed form. The authority comes from the general provisions: the board manages the corporation under section 27(1) and owners contribute in the declaration proportions under section 84(1), together with whatever the corporation’s declaration and by-laws say. The Act acknowledges special assessments only in the backward-looking disclosure a status certificate must give a purchaser.
When do owners get to vote on major work?
Only where it is a substantial change to the common elements. Section 97(4) requires owners of at least 66 and two-thirds per cent of the units to vote in favour of a substantial addition, alteration or improvement, and section 97(6) defines substantial as an estimated total cost exceeding ten per cent of the annual budgeted common expenses for the current fiscal year, or where the board elects to treat it as substantial. Below that, section 97(3) requires notice and a thirty-day requisition window, and section 97(2) allows the board to proceed without notice where the work is necessary for safety, to prevent imminent damage, to comply with a statute or agreement, or where the cost is no more than the greater of $1,000 and one per cent of annual budgeted common expenses.
Do we vote on a garage or window replacement?
Almost certainly not. Section 97(1) provides that where the corporation carries out a repair or maintenance obligation using materials as reasonably close in quality to the original as is appropriate under current construction standards, the work is deemed not to be an addition, alteration or improvement for the purposes of section 97. A like-for-like garage rehabilitation or window replacement therefore attracts no owner vote at any dollar figure and can be funded by an uncapped special assessment. A lobby upgrade of the same value might well require a two-thirds vote, because it is an improvement.
What does a status certificate cost and how long does it take?
Section 18(4) of O. Reg. 48/01 provides that the fee a corporation may charge for a status certificate, including all material required to be included in it, shall not exceed $100 inclusive of all applicable taxes. Section 76(3) of the Act requires the corporation to give it within ten days after receiving the request and payment.
What happens if the corporation misses the ten-day deadline?
It is deemed to have given a clean certificate. Section 76(5) provides that a corporation which does not give a status certificate within the required time is deemed to have given one, on the day immediately after, stating that there has been no default in common expenses, that the board has declared no increase since the budget date, and that it has levied no assessments to increase the reserve fund contribution. Section 76(4) adds that where a certificate omits required material information it is deemed to state there is no such information. Section 76(6) makes the certificate binding on the corporation as against a purchaser or mortgagee who relies on it. Those three subsections together are the strongest consumer protections in the Act.
How many owners does it take to requisition a meeting?
Under the current section 46(1), owners of at least fifteen per cent of the units who appear in the corporation’s record and are entitled to vote. On receiving a valid requisition the board must either add the business to the next annual general meeting if the requisitionists ask, or call and hold a meeting within 35 days. If it does not, section 46(5) allows a requisitionist to call the meeting, to be held within 45 days, and section 46(6) requires the corporation to reimburse the reasonable costs of doing so.
Is the requisition process changing?
Yes, on 31 December 2026. The consolidation carries a note that section 46 is repealed and replaced on that day. Under the new section, owners whose contributions have been in arrears for thirty days or more cannot requisition; the requisition must be on a prescribed form; the board has a prescribed twenty days to respond in writing and silence is deemed acceptance; if accepted, the meeting must be held within forty days after the response period; and if refused, requisitionists have ten days to revise and twenty days to apply to the Condominium Authority Tribunal or the Superior Court or the requisition is deemed abandoned. The current self-help route and the reimbursement of a requisitionist’s costs both disappear.
What happens if I stop paying my condo fees?
A lien arises automatically under section 85(1) for the unpaid amount together with all interest owing and all reasonable legal costs and expenses of collection. The corporation must give you at least ten days written notice before registering a certificate of lien, and the lien expires three months after the default unless a certificate is registered within that time. Section 86(1) gives the lien priority over every registered and unregistered encumbrance even where the encumbrance existed first, subject only to certain Crown and municipal tax claims. Section 85(6) allows it to be enforced in the same manner as a mortgage. Section 84(3)(b) removes any defence based on your having a claim against the corporation, section 49(1) removes your vote at thirty days of arrears, and section 1.36(4)(a) excludes liens from the Condominium Authority Tribunal entirely.
How much are condo fees rising in Ontario?
The only Ontario dataset is the Condominium Authority of Ontario’s Report on Reserve Fund Survey Findings, published September 2024 from surveys fielded in April 2023 with 724 corporation responses. It reports that the share of respondent corporations increasing common expenses fees by less than ten per cent fell from 91 per cent in 2021 to 89 per cent in 2022 and 84 per cent in partial 2023, while the ten to twenty per cent band rose from 7 to 9 to 13 per cent. CAO describes its own data as preliminary and not meant to be conclusive, and notes limitations including sample size and representation. It also reports that 64 per cent of surveyed corporations received recommendations to increase contributions by more than three per cent.
Is there an average condo fee for Ontario?
Not one that is published. Statistics Canada’s Survey of Household Spending reports Ontario average household expenditure on condominium fees for owned living quarters at $478 in 2017, $402 in 2019, $598 in 2021 and $950 in 2023, but that is an average across all Ontario households rather than across condominium-owning households. It reflects both the growth of the condominium tenure share and fee increases in unknown proportions, so it is not a condo fee. Condominium fees are collected as a Census variable but I could not locate a Statistics Canada table publishing an average fee by province, and they are not broken out as a named series in the Consumer Price Index.
Related reading
- Condo insurance in Ontario: the standard unit and the deductible chargeback
- Cannot close your assignment sale? The HST sentence and the flipping rule
- GTA pre-construction market report: Fall 2026
- Toronto West market report, July 2026
Sources
Every figure on this page traces to one of these, and each was read on 1 September 2026. Primary sources only — statute, regulation, and the government or agency that administers the rule. Where I could not verify something from a primary source, the page says so instead of guessing.
- Condominium Act, 1998, S.O. 1998, c. 19. Government of Ontario e-Laws, consolidated text read 1 September 2026 through the e-Laws JSON API; consolidation period from 31 December 2025. Section 27(1) gives the board the management of the corporation’s affairs; section 69(1) lists what must go before the annual general meeting and does not include the budget; sections 93 to 95 govern the reserve fund; section 97 sets the owner-vote thresholds for changes to the common elements; section 76 sets the contents, ten-day deadline and binding effect of a status certificate; sections 46, 49 and 50 govern requisitions, voting and quorum; sections 85 and 86 govern liens and their priority. Accessed 1 September 2026.
- O. Reg. 48/01, General, under the Condominium Act, 1998. Government of Ontario e-Laws, consolidated from 20 July 2026, last amended by O. Reg. 236/26. Section 28 establishes the three classes of reserve fund study. Section 18(1) sets additional status certificate contents including a statement of any knowledge of circumstances that may result in an increase in common expenses. Section 18(4) caps the status certificate fee at $100 inclusive of all applicable taxes. New sections 12.2.1 to 12.2.7 take effect 31 December 2026. Accessed 1 September 2026.
- Guide on Condo Finances (PDF) — Condominium Authority of Ontario. Condominium Authority of Ontario. Describes the annual budget as usually prepared by management for the board’s approval, or by the board if self-managed, and describes determining the total assessed to owners for common expenses as one of the most important financial decisions made each year by the board of directors. Accessed 1 September 2026.
- Report on Reserve Fund Survey Findings, September 2024 (PDF) — CAO. Condominium Authority of Ontario. Surveys fielded April 2023 with 724 corporation responses and 5,986 owner responses. Reports that 84 per cent of respondent corporations increased common expenses fees by less than ten per cent in 2023, that between 2018 and 2023 sixteen per cent reported issuing a special assessment, and that 64 per cent received recommendations to increase contributions by more than three per cent. The report describes its own data as preliminary and not meant to be conclusive. Accessed 1 September 2026.
- Best Practices Guide, Ensuring Healthy Reserve Funds, December 2023 (PDF) — CAO. Condominium Authority of Ontario. States that newer buildings typically have fewer reserve fund expenditures but that funding needs generally increase as a corporation ages, and that failing to conduct necessary major repairs could result in the common elements degrading to the point of diminishing the overall value of the corporation. Accessed 1 September 2026.
- Liens — Condominium Authority of Ontario. Condominium Authority of Ontario, page last modified 6 April 2026. States that a lien automatically expires after three months unless the corporation registers a certificate of lien with the land registry office, and that registering the lien ensures the corporation has priority in recovering money. Accessed 1 September 2026.
- Special assessments — Condominium Authority of Ontario. Condominium Authority of Ontario, page last modified 23 April 2026. Describes a special assessment as an extra one-time charge added to owners’ common expenses fees that condominium corporations may use to cover shortfalls in their yearly budgets. Accessed 1 September 2026.
- Table 11-10-0222-01, Household spending, Canada, regions and provinces — Statistics Canada. Statistics Canada, Survey of Household Spending, file dated 21 May 2025. The category condominium fees for owned living quarters reports Ontario average expenditure per household of $478 in 2017, $402 in 2019, $598 in 2021 and $950 in 2023. This is an average across all Ontario households, not across condominium-owning households, so it reflects both the growth of the condominium tenure share and fee increases in unknown proportions. Accessed 1 September 2026.
About the author — Jatin Dua, Etobicoke real estate agent
I’m the Broker of Record at RE/MAX Quantum Realty, 799 The Queensway in Etobicoke. I write these pages the same way I work a file: read the primary source, quote it, date it, and say plainly where the source is silent or where two sources disagree. If a figure on this page has no citation beside it, that is a mistake and I want to hear about it.
I work with buyers, sellers, renters and investors across Etobicoke, Mimico, Humber Bay Shores, New Toronto, Long Branch, Alderwood and Stonegate–Queensway. connect@jatindua.com or 437-987-1925.