Federal Labour Minister Seamus O’Regan says he has appointed an Industrial Inquiry Commission to dig deeper into the underlying causes of B.C.’s port strike last summer.
The federal government says in a statement the port strike was a single labour dispute that caused a major “economic disruption” as longshore workers walked picket lines for just under two weeks last July.
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