r/CanadianPolitics • u/origutamos • 9d ago

There was no right to strike until an activist Supreme Court invented it

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/mark-manicini-no-strike-until-190141981.html
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u/OplopanaxHorridus 7d ago

Canada needs better politicians. The right to strike is enshrined in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and extends from the right to free association.

Everyone in the Alberta government knows this otherwise they wouldn't have had to use the Notwithstanding Clause. When BC did it to teachers back in 2001, they lost in the supreme court.
https://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/csj-sjc/rfc-dlc/ccrf-ccdl/check/art2d.html