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The impact of the US judicial doctrines on recent Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms decisions relating to Canada's collective bargaining laws is analyzed. No clear pattern emerges concerning the impact of American jurisprudence on those Charter cases relating to labor law. What is very noticeable, however, is the tendency of the Canadian judiciary to consult US case law, even if it is ultimately rejected as a deciding factor in the particular decision to be rendered. Even in those cases in which US jurisprudence was seen to be particularly relevant, it was never to the exclusion of an assessment of the Canadian experience or without a recognition that the values, institutions, and constitutional arrangements of the 2 nations are different.