W H. Wightmnan

The applicant unions brought applications under section 69 of the Labour Relations Act concerning the sale of an answering service business from Rogers Cantel Paging Inc. to AAS Telecommunications Services Limited.

Rogers raised a preliminary objection that the Board lacked jurisdiction because the sale was from a federal undertaking.

The Board found that Rogers operated the answering and paging services as a fully integrated business, which constituted a federally regulated undertaking.

The Board concluded it has no jurisdiction under section 69 to consider a sale of part of a federally regulated operation to a provincially regulated company, and dismissed the applications.