Vinventory Canada Inc. brought an application challenging the constitutional applicability of Ontario's Occupational Health and Safety Act, arguing that it was subject to federal derivative labour jurisdiction under the Canada Labour Code.
The corporation, a sub-contractor providing rail yard management and automobile handling services at a Canadian Pacific Railway facility, contended its operations were an integral part of a federally regulated undertaking.
The court dismissed the motion, finding that Vinventory's work was not sufficiently integral or permanently dependent on the federal undertaking to displace the presumptive provincial labour jurisdiction.
