Here’s an article from The Toronto Star (April 30, 2024) on Tarion’s mediation programme, for which I was interviewed. The CEO of Tarion, who’s a lawyer himself, should have known that mediators with past ties to Tarion may not be perceived by consumers as independent. His promise to review and re-think this sounds like covering his tracks for bad decisions……………………………………………………………………………………..”Should have been disclosed”: Tarion launches internal review over concerns about mediators’ past ties to the agency – thestar.com
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Hi Barb:
Hope you’ve been keeping well.
Thank you for sharing this with me however as an FYI I am unable to read the entire article as it’s from the Toronto Star. Not sure if others are experiencing the same issue but wanted to at least bring it to your attention. In fact, the podcast you’d shared a week or so ago I was also unable to hear because I believe it was an ‘apple’ podcast.
Anyway, thanks again for thinking of me and I’m glad to see you’re still hard at it. One of these fine days this madness may come to a positive end.
Kind regards,
Marion Lerman
Excellent and much needed investigative journalism on something that should be an obvious conflict of interest for Tarion and the Ministry that oversees them. I think the fact that it takes a Toronto Star reporter and impending article to prompt an internal review shows how unaccountable Tarion is. Further evidence of this corruption can be seen with the employees of the Ministry in charge of overseeing the Ontario New Home Warranty Program which Tarion hires. It is good that some light is put on these issues as hopefully it will lead to some more accountability. Realistically however some major structural changes will need to happen for this to occur. An end to the monopoly and some serious change in our political system and leadership could help.