The appellant, a freight forwarding company with branches across Canada, consolidates and deconsolidates freight but contracts with third-party carriers for interprovincial transport.
A union applied to the Alberta Labour Relations Board for a declaration that the company's labour relations were subject to federal jurisdiction.
The Board and the Court of Appeal held the company was a federal undertaking.
The Supreme Court of Canada allowed the appeal, holding that because the company does not itself perform interprovincial carriage of goods, it remains a local undertaking subject to provincial jurisdiction under s. 92(13) of the Constitution Act, 1867.
