Bill 32: The Constitutionality of Limiting a Union's Political Activities
This week, Professor Doorey published an article I wrote about Alberta Bill 32 on his Canadian Law of Work Forum. I'm not going to reproduce it here - just click the link: http://lawofwork.ca/bill32-charter/ Consider this post a bit of a meta-narrative, where I'll prattle on about some other perspectives not fully addressed in that article. Bill 32 which passed on Tuesday and received royal assent yesterday, is attracting national attention, particularly because of its treatment of political speech. It's getting attention for other reasons, too - my social media feeds have been filled with CUPE ads drawing attention to its overtime reform, and there's concern about limitations to secondary picketing - but in most of these ways it's more or less undoing changes by the Notley government, if perhaps going a bit further (not to say that some of these aren't constitutionally questionable in their own right). The 'political activity' issue is probably Bill