Ontario Is Gutting a Pillar of the Labor-Capital Settlement

A central piece of the twentieth-century labor-capital compromise is disappearing in Ontario, as the government moves forward with omnibus legislation that will transform the province’s workers’ compensation system. If Ontario’s Bill 105 becomes law later this year, it will herald the most significant overhaul of workers’ compensation in nearly three decades. On paper, the bill contains measures the government is presenting as improvements, including a modest increase in wage-loss benefits from…