Provincial Election - Questions for Candidates

The 30th Saskatchewan general election will be held on or before October 28, 2024, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan. In conjunction with CCI North Saskatchewan Chapter, CCI South Saskatchewan is recommending that condo directors and owners reach out to candidates of the major parties to provide them with information regarding condominiums, the issues they are facing in Saskatchewan, and ask questions to get their feedback on these issues.

Questions

1. Condominium Act Amendments

Does your party have a plan regarding moving forward to work on necessary amendments and regulations and to legislate important amendments to the Condominium Act?

2. Green Energy

Does your party have a plan to assist condominiums to migrate to green energy? If so, what incentive(s) would your party offer to condominiums to facilitate the move to green energy? Is your party prepared to have the government pay for a portion of installation costs, or offer other financial incentives? Would incentives offered to homeowners (in the more traditional sense of houses/townhouses) be extended wherever possible to condominium owners?

3. Mandatory Inspection of High-Risk Buildings

In light of the structural collapse of the condominium in Surfside, and the Elliot Lake Mall collapse, and the number of aging condominiums, would your government implement any form of mandatory structural inspections of high-risk buildings?

4. Affordable Housing

It is convenient to decide with the developers to build these public features in exchange for increased density or other benefits to the developer but ultimately the cost and effort of overseeing them falls to the volunteer board at the affected condominium. What efforts will you or your party make to balance protecting the interests of the future condominium corporations while also seeking to provide affordable housing?

By virtue of their structure, condominiums have a positive impact on increased densification of urban areas versus single family homes. Condominiums contribute to achieving goals set out in Places to Grow legislation. In view of this, what is your party prepared to do to encourage condominium ownership?

Is your party prepared to offer incentives to buyers of new and/or resale condominium properties? Logic says that incentives paid to developers would not energize the market in the same way as incentives paid to purchasers. 

5. Insurance

What would your party propose to assist condominium owners in having access to reasonably priced property insurance with reasonable deductibles?

6. Condominium Managers

Would your government take steps through the Ministry of Labour, and/or Training and Skills Development to encourage growth in the condominium management industry by encouraging students to see management as a career path, and if so, what would those steps include?

7. Condominium Services

Would your government take steps throughTraining and Skills Devlopment to encourage growth in the condominium housing community by eliminating the division between single family homes and multi-residential homes in regard to service provided and the unequal costs and if so, what would those steps include?

CCI recognizes that its members may have an interest in the positions and views that the respective parties and candidates have on matters relating to condominiums. To this end, CCI-SSK, in conjunction with the CCI NSK Chapter will posing questions to candidates representing the major parties in wards with a significant number of condominiums, asking for their positions on several condominium-related issues.