Canadian Industrial Relations -Contexts and Ideology

II. Procedural Rules ‑ Government

Early approaches

•Early on, unions viewed as criminal conspiracies in restraint of trade

•By 1900, most legal restrictions on unions gone

•Industrial Disputes Investigation Act ‑ 1907


		Industrial Disputes Investigation Act ‑ 1907
			Compulsory tri‑partite conciliation procedure
			No economic sanctions until report released to public
			Approach became hallmark Canadian dispute settlement, adopted quickly by most provinces