J. Robert Gardiner

J. Robert Gardiner, B.A., LL.B., ACCI, FCCI is senior partner of Gardiner Miller Arnold LLP, a Bay Street law firm focused on condominium law.

He was President of the Canadian Condominium Institute (Toronto & Area), and chaired its Legislative Committee and its Education Committee. Bob is an honorary member of the ACMO Associates Executive Committee and co-chaired ACMO’s Government and Legal Committee for many years.

As chair of the ACMO/CCI Joint Recommendations Committee, Bob drafted and presented five briefs to the Ontario government proposing 180 improvements to the Condominium Act and Regulations during the 1998 revisions to the Act. He also participated in revisions to the 2017 Act. He has been a member of four other condominium committees. Bob initiated the annual ACMO/CCI Condo Conference and developed CCI-Toronto’s CondoVoice Magazine.

Bob has authored 11 books (five on condominium law), edited three condominium legal texts and has written and directed two condo comedy plays. He has published over 400 legal articles and has moderated and spoken at over 85 condo seminars. Bob has presented more than 40 briefs to legislators and has written over 3,000 legal opinions on a wide range of condominium issues. Besides The Condominium Act, 1998 – A Practical Guide (Canada Law Book), some condominium books include Beyond the Condominium Act (Bob designed ACMO’s initial R.C.M. college course and text), Disaster Planning Workbook (CCI-Toronto) and Chairing Condominium Meetings (Cynewulf).

Bob has been honoured as a Fellow of the Canadian Condominium Institute for meritorious service to the condominium community. In 2004, he received ACMO’s “Associate of the Year” Award on behalf of GMA.

Bob also received the Governor General’s Confederation 125 Award for significant service to Canada. The Canadian Federation of Humane Societies conferred its McGrand Award upon Bob and he received the Queen’s Jubilee Award for his animal welfare achievements to eliminate use of the leghold trap on land, protections for wildlife, animal protections in the Criminal Code, farm animal Codes of Conduct and his work with respect to experimentation upon animals.

A past Vice-President and director of the Canadian Federation of Humane Societies, he chaired numerous wildlife and animal welfare committees for thirty years. As President of the Canadian Association for Humane Trapping, Bob participated in trap research, initiated a Trapper’s Code of Conduct, and many humane trapping regulations, programs and policies across Canada, and internationally. Bob’s resolution “The Use of Wildlife Must be Sustainable and Humane” was adopted unanimously by representatives of 135 countries at the International Union for the Conservation of Nature.

Editor of the Osgoode Hall Law Journal (1972) and a lecturer on business law at Ryerson University (1979), Bob practiced corporate and entertainment law before concentrating on providing practical legal solutions to a wide variety of condominium issues. A past Vice-President and director of the Canadian Federation of Humane Societies, he chaired numerous wildlife and animal welfare committees. As President of the Canadian Association for Humane Trapping, Bob initiated many humane trapping regulations, programs and policies across Canada, and internationally through the World Conservation Union and the International Standards Organization.

Bob authored Welcome to My Garden (poems), Berczy’s Place (poems), Come On In (CD – songs) and Standing Stones (CD – guitar instrumentals), as well as his major opus, Stardust ~ The Riddle of Reality – a wilderness dusk ’til dawn exploration of creation/space-time/astronomy/subatomic physics/nature- /environment/evolution/mind and spirit. Bob’s photographs wallpaper his corner office and have been fund-raisers for the Law Society’s Feed the Hungry program. As Grand Master Taster of Dessert First! Bob, a dessert rights radical, urges diners to eat dessert before clogging up on vegetables and meat.

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