Open Letter To The Lawyer Of The Corporation

 Disclaimer:

“This article is a work of fiction. Any similarity to a Condo Corporation and its Board of Directors, persons (living or dead), or actual events, is purely coincidental. While reading the article, remain focused on the notion that reality is often stranger than fiction, and the social environment that generates a set of “Real" conflicts, is the very same social environment that creates the fictional article.”

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Dear Madam/Sir,

Correct me if I am wrong, because I am relying on info from the mid 1980s, LSAT was an exam designed to assess the logical faculties of a person contemplating a career in the legal profession. None of the extensive list of questions a potential candidate had to struggle with, were pertinent to “Law”. In other words, a future lawyer was expected to be more adept at logical reasoning rather than the sheer memorization of rules and regulations.

What is your professional view (logical explanation) of the following phenomenon:

A builder finishes the construction of a condo. Buyers start moving into their units in late 2016. In 2017 Management Company X, selected by the builder/developer creates the first Board of Directors composed of 5 members reflecting the “Ethnic” composition of the 175 owners in the building.

In 2019, a new management company shows up on the scene, Board membership shrinks from 5 to 3, all belonging to the same “Ethnic” group that owns the management company.

From 2019 to 2024 Board members, now ethnically homogeneous, fail to notice that other “Ethnic” groups exist in the building. While using the elevators, the common areas, the underground parking lots, and possibly the gym all three Board members never encounter anyone from another “Ethnic” group, thus they become averse to change (expanding the membership to 5) and too comfortable with the idea that there is nothing wrong with the Status Quo, and if there are no complaints expressed we don’t have to take any initiative to introduce “Diversity” into our ranks.

Joins and encourages “The Group Think”, the desire to create conformity, the Management Company, that also fails to notice that The Board looks to an outside observer like an exclusive “Private Club”.

Now the $1000 question about the previous scenario:

What are the chances that everything described is sheer coincidence; 1in a 1000, 1 in 10,000 or 1 in a million? What are the odds that human volition had nothing to do in creating and maintaining the Status Quo-the discrimination to keep the Board ethnically homogeneous?

Although the questions above are addressed to the “Fictitious” lawyer of the Corporation, readers who have a strong mathematical inclination, or are experts in “Statistical Analysis” are more than welcome to provide an answer.

Respectfully,

Perplexed Condo Owner, Narkhan, ON

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