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A Richmond man who took his fight over Mandarin-only strata meetings at his townhouse complex to the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal has moved away from the city with his family.

Andreas Kargut and six other residents filed a class-action complaint because they couldn’t participate in a Mandarin-only meeting in the 54-unit complex. They claimed they were being discriminated against by the strata council.

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After the parties reached a pre-settlement last year, things appeared as though they would work out, and a handful of meetings were held in English with a Mandarin translator.

But then a resolution that would have ensured every meeting would have an accredited interpreter was voted down by strata members.

Now, Kargut and the other parties to his complaint are waiting for a decision as to whether they can proceed to a hearing at the human rights tribunal over the matter.

In the meantime, Kargut has had enough and on Canada Day, he and his family moved to Vernon in the North Okanagan.