Is There a Constitutional Right to Strike in Canada: Introduction

Abstract

On December 5, 2009, an international symposium took place at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, on the question, "Is there a constitutional right to strike in Canada?" In organizing that meeting, I invited leading labour and constitutional law scholars, practitioners and judges from Europe, South Africa, Israel, the United States and the United Kingdom, as well as from across Canada, to attend in order to help answer the most pressing issue facing students and practitioners of Canadian labour law today.