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II. Absolutely Prohibited

A corporate name is prohibited, under regulation 21, if the name contains any of the following elements:

  1. "Air Canada";
  2. "Canada Standard" or "CS";
  3. "cooperative", "coopérative", "co-op" or "pool" when it connotes a cooperative venture;
  4. "Parliament Hill" or "Colline du Parlement";
  5. "Royal Canadian Mounted Police", "Gendarmerie Royale du Canada" "RCMP" or "GRC" ; or;
  6. "United Nations", "Nations Unies", "UN" or "ONU".


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Created: 2005-05-29
Updated: 2005-11-01
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