Q-758 , 45th Parliament, 1st session May 26, 2025, to present

With regard to the actions of the Minister of Jobs and Families regarding the labour dispute between Air Canada and flight attendants with the Canadian Union of Public Employees, beginning with the expiration of the previous collective agreement in March 2025 and ending with the minister’s invocation of Section 107 of the Canada Labour Code on August 16, 2025: (a) what was the total number of meetings taken by the minister with (i) representatives of Air Canada, (ii) representatives of the Canadian Union of Public Employees flight attendants; (b) what was the total number of emails sent by the minister to (i) representatives of Air Canada, (ii) representatives of the Canadian Union of Public Employees flight attendants; (c) in the period between the commencement of the Canadian Union of Public Employees flight attendants’ strike at 00:58 Eastern Daylight Time, on Saturday, August 16, 2025, and the minister’s invocation of Section 107, what was the number of times the minister communicated with representatives of Air Canada, broken down by (i) meetings, (ii) emails, (iii) calls, (iv) texts, (v) encrypted messages; (d) in the correspondence in (a), (b) and (c), did the minister communicate with representatives of Air Canada her intent or openness to invoking Section 107 of the Canada Labour Code, in the event of a work stoppage; (e) what steps did the minister take to ensure that the invocation of Section 107 against the Canadian Union of Public Employees flight attendants was constitutional and aligned with previous Supreme Court rulings on back-to-work legislation, including that it did not substantially interfere with collective bargaining and that it did not disrupt the balance of power between employer and employees; (f) by what criteria did the minister determine that the consequences of a work stoppage at Air Canada outweighed flight attendants’ right to strike while in a legal strike position; and (g) what measures did the minister take to work with Air Canada and the Canadian Union of Public Employees to mitigate the consequences in (f), so that the invocation of Section 107 would be unnecessary?