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CUPE Ontario

Canadian Union of Public Employees - Ontario division

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Public Matters Mentioning CUPE Ontario

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Nov 7, 2019

👷 LabourReversed

Bill 124: Public Sector Wage Caps

Legislation capping public sector wage increases at 1% annually for three years, later struck down as unconstitutional by the courts.

Oct 31, 2022

👷 LabourReversed

Bill 28: Use of Notwithstanding Clause Against Education Workers

The government invoked the notwithstanding clause to impose a contract on education workers and ban strikes, then reversed course after two weeks following widespread backlash.

Commissioned the Simon Archer / Goldblatt Partners legal opinion on Bill 60 and released it (March 2026)

Nov 1, 2025

🔍 TransparencyIn Effect

Water and Wastewater Public Corporations Act (Bill 60 / Bill 98): Privatization-by-Stealth Concerns

In November 2025 the Ford government enacted the Water and Wastewater Public Corporations Act as Schedule 16 of omnibus Bill 60. In March 2026, CUPE Ontario released a legal opinion by Simon Archer of Goldblatt Partners, prepared jointly with the Ontario NDP, finding that the word "public" in the Act's name has no real legal effect and that the legislation does not guarantee the corporations will be publicly owned. Bill 98 later amended the Act to restrict share ownership to governments and "an agent of any of them," leaving "agent" undefined. A legal opinion by UBC law professor Joel Bakan — retained by CUPE — concluded the amendments "will have the same impacts on communities in terms of water services as a fully privatized scheme." Water corporations must be incorporated as for-profit entities under the Ontario Business Corporations Act. Peel Region is the pilot.