PC 1003

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Privy Council Act 1003 was a wartime measures Act, passed during World War II in Canada by the Liberal government of Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King in 1943. It was the first law in Canada to recognize the existence of unions, and to force employers to negotiate with organized workers. It was drafted loosely on the Wagner Act and is considered the framework for union rights in Canada. At the end of World War II, PC 1003, being a wartime Act, was abolished by the provinces, who said that the federal state does not have rights to pass that legislation. Subsequently, in 1948, all the provinces in Canada passed similar legislation to PC 1003.