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On October 15, 2026 an Ontario court appointed an administrator for 24 condo corporations SIREG managed. What he can do, and what it means for owners.
By the Tenant.ca teamUpdated 8 min read
On October 15, 2026 Justice Jana Steele of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice (Commercial List) signed an order appointing Brian Antman as administrator, under section 131 of the Condominium Act, 1998, of 24 condominium corporations whose buildings SIREG Management Inc. managed. According to the order, the motion was brought by a group of owners of units in those corporations. According to the court's endorsement, their lawyer represents over 700 unit owners, and both the proposal trustee and the mortgage lender Firm Capital Mortgage Fund Inc. supported the appointment.
According to the order, it was made in SIREG's insolvency proceedings, court file BK-26-03429084-0032. It is posted with the other court filings on the proposal trustee's case website.
This page is general information, not legal advice. It reflects public sources checked on October 19, 2026, and the situation is changing: hearings on the rent issue, the trustee's bankruptcy motion and the remaining condominium corporations were set for October 20 and 22.
According to the endorsement, the boards of all 43 condominium corporations resigned on or about September 17, 2026, and the CMRAO suspended SIREG Management's licence on September 29, so the corporations had neither a board nor a manager. The proposal trustee had listed the urgent problems: expired or expiring insurance policies, bank accounts needed to receive condo fees, urgent maintenance and repairs, threatened utility disconnections and the need to elect new boards.
The endorsement notes that the Condominium Act requires at least 15 days' written notice of an owners' meeting, so new boards could not be in place before early to mid-November. Applying the test in section 131, the judge found it just or convenient to appoint an administrator for the corporations where no owner had objected: there were no boards, and in the meantime only an administrator had a reasonable prospect of bringing order to their affairs.
These are the corporations listed in the order's appendix. Your corporation's name and number appear on your status certificate, on your common expense notices and in the CAO Condo Registry. According to the endorsement, Leeds Standard Condominium Corporation No. 48 was taken off the list because it had not held a turn-over meeting, and Lambton Condominium Corporation No. 11 and Essex Standard Condominium Corporation No. 168 were added after owners there withdrew their objections.
The order gives the administrator all the powers, objects and duties of each corporation's board under the Condominium Act and the corporation's declaration and by-laws, and disbands the boards until the court orders otherwise. Without limiting those powers, it authorizes and requires him to:
According to the order, the administrator must call meetings of each corporation's owners as soon as reasonably possible, and within 30 days of October 15, to elect a "shadow" board. A shadow board has no decision-making power of its own; it meets the administrator regularly to learn the corporation's affairs, so the corporation can go back to governing itself.
Within 45 days of the order, and as soon as possible after the shadow boards are elected, the administrator must report to the court on his progress and ask to be discharged, returning each corporation to self-governance. Once he has each corporation's record of owners, he must serve a copy of the order on every owner.
According to the order, the administrator may bill each corporation $375 an hour for his time, plus his lawyer's fees, subject to the court approving his accounts, and these costs are payable by the corporations he works for. The order says none of SIREG's companies in the proceedings bears any of these costs, and that each corporation reimburses the owner group's costs of bringing the motion. A condominium corporation's costs are paid from the common expenses its owners contribute.
According to the court's October 14 endorsement, owners in some corporations objected to an administrator or wanted more time, so the motion for the remaining corporations was adjourned to October 22, 2026. In the meantime, owners in those buildings can still call a meeting to elect a board themselves under section 34 of the Condominium Act. According to SIREG Management's October 13 notice to owners, it would email each owner a list of the other owners in their building, with the corporation's declaration, by-laws and rules.
The order also has a comeback clause: anyone with standing under section 131 can ask the court for directions, or to set aside all or part of the order. According to the October 15 endorsement, owners of a listed corporation who want to do that can file material ahead of the October 22 hearing.
The administrator runs the condominium corporation: the common elements, insurance, the budget and the reserve fund. The order does not make him the manager of individual units. According to SIREG Management's October 13 notice to owners, filed with the court by the proposal trustee, SIREG Management can no longer provide management services for condominium units, will surrender its tenancy and will transition the management of each unit to its owner as soon as possible.
That leaves the tenancy with you: your tenant, the rent and the repairs inside the unit. Our landlord checklist covers what the Residential Tenancies Act asks of you from that point.
As of October 19, 2026, according to the court's endorsements and the order:
The administrator looks after the building. Someone still has to look after each rented unit: the tenant, the rent and the repairs inside it. That is the part Tenant.ca does, from the day the tenancy is yours.
With Tenant.ca you stay the landlord and we manage the unit under a management agreement: we tell your tenant in writing who to contact and how to pay, collect the rent, coordinate repairs you approve and report to you. The fee is $98 plus HST per unit per month, the first 60 days of the agreement are a trial period, and your owner portal shows each rent payment for each unit.
We take on SIREG-managed units in the GTA and in Brantford, Chatham, Hamilton, Kitchener, Listowel, London (1265 and 1275 Bentley Drive only), Sarnia, St. Catharines, Tillsonburg, Waterloo, Welland, Windsor and Woodstock. Send us the building address and unit number and we will confirm coverage. There is no rush and no obligation, and you can call 1-866-TENANT-0 (836-2680) if you would rather talk it through.
