Oh yeah…..they could demand wages so high that it wouldn’t be feasible for Canadian employers to bother hiring them. Foreign workers would then be forced to work in their own countries for a dollar a day.

Ok…at least the NDP would support it.

I actually had John Craig of Heenan Blaikie, who is also counsel for this case, as my labour law instructor at UWO for this term.

I did this theoretical decision by the SCC for him as an assignment, some of it rather tongue-in-cheek, but you might find it interesting.