Fighting for the Rights of Cooperative Members: Matthew Co-op

Matthew Co-op

Matthew Co-op is a housing co-operative in the County of Simcoe, Ontario, which is home to over 100 predominantly low-income Ontarians. The County attempted to dissolve the cooperative and purchase the housing, thereby taking away the democratic and participatory rights of the co-op residents. We acted for the Co-operative Housing Federation of Canada in opposing the sale and dissolution of the co-op.

The judge decided in the favour of the co-operative , and rejected theplan to sell and dissolve the co-op. The judge extensively relied on a powerful precedent we set in a previous case about the duty of fairness owed to co-operatives.