LEADER-POST A legal action that could reshape Canadian business, government and, especially, organized labour for decades is heading from Saskatchewan to the Supreme Court of Canada.
The court announced Thursday that it’s agreed to hear the Saskatchewan Federation’s of Labour’s appeal of a decision upholding the Saskatchewan Party government’s Public Service Essential Services Act and the Trade Union Act Amendment Act.
When the province’s top court upheld this legislation in late April, Justice Robert Richards wrote that the Supreme Court might want to revisit the issue of a constitutional right to strike, a topic it last considered — and rejected — in 1987, only a few years after the Charter of Rights and Freedoms came into effect.
