Morley Hanson

The Strata Property Act does not give Council a general discretion to spend the Strata's money on what it judges to be a good idea. Every expenditure must be authorized — a budget line, a Contingency Reserve Fund vote at the level the expenditure requires, or one of the narrow unapproved-expenditure exceptions

A Strata is entitled to use its judgment about whether and how to enforce a bylaw, and it is not expected to be perfect. However, that judgment must keep moving toward a decision; it cannot be exercised once and then abandoned while the same complaint continues to come in.

Unit entitlement is the Act's default, and complying with it is generally a safe answer to a cost-allocation complaint as significantly unfair. The Act provides tools, through either sectioning or a types bylaw, to apportion common expenses in a manner that is fair to all Owners.