The Confederation Des Syndicats Nationaux: Supreme Court

Supreme Court: The Confederation des Syndicats Nationaux is asking the Supreme Court to declare the move unconstitutional, but the federal government argues the matter was already dealt with in a 2008 decision. AG calls for stronger crackdown on EI overpayments, according to CBC. But the court also rejected claims by organized labour that the governments of Jean Chretien and Paul Martin deliberately ran up massive EI surpluses so they could divert the money to balance the federal budget and The Supreme Court of Canada has agreed to hear the appeal of one of Quebec's leading labour organizations over the Harper government's 2010 move to close the old federal employment insurance account and transfer $57 billion into the government's general revenues. In its 2008 ruling, the Supreme Court found the former Liberal government broke the law in revamping the employment insurance system, transforming the EI premiums paid by workers and employers into a back-door, unconstitutional tax. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.