Canada Cooperatives Regulations

19 For the purpose of paragraph 23(a) of the Act, a cooperative name that is confusing with the name of a body corporate that has not carried on business in the two years immediately before the date of a request for a cooperative name is prohibited, unless the body corporate that has that name

• (a) consents in writing to the use of the name, and the name is not otherwise prohibited; and

• (b) undertakes in writing to dissolve immediately or to change its name before the cooperative proposing to use the name begins to use it, and the name is not otherwise prohibited.