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Bill C-39 seeks to give Canada labour minister explicit authority under Section 107

Experts say the Liberal government is testing the limits of its power to intervene in collective bargaining and to quash strikes

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Bill C-39 seeks to give Canada labour minister explicit authority under Section 107

What this story says

  • Bill C-39 would amend Section 107 of the Canada Labour Code to give the labour minister explicit authority.
  • Labour experts say the Liberal government is testing the limits of its power to intervene in collective bargaining.
  • The proposed bill is described as a test of Ottawa's power to quash strikes.
  • All twelve outlets reported the story via digests; no right‑rated outlet ran it.

Who covered it

Left 67%(14)Centre 33%(7)Right 0%(0)

Percentages are shares of the 21 outlets carrying a published leaning rating. 1 of the 22 outlets we know ran this story carry no rating and are not counted in them. Coverage measured .

Trust

35/100

Craft

16/100

Hype

45/100

22 sources · methodology

Missing from the right

None of the 21 outlets with a published leaning rating that ran this story are rated right.

A reader who follows the right would not have seen this. We report the absence rather than explain it: outlets choose what to cover for many reasons, and we have no evidence about which one applies here.

The Liberal government has introduced Bill C-39, which proposes changing the language of Section 107 of the Canada Labour Code. The amendment would give the labour minister explicit authority to intervene in collective bargaining situations.

Labour experts say the bill will test the limits of Ottawa's power to quash strikes. They describe the proposal as a test of the government's ability to intervene in disputes between employers and unions.

Omissions

None of the right‑rated digests mention the labour code story.

Coverage settled. We checked this 17 times and stopped on 30 Sept 2026, 12:30. The figures above are what it finished at.

How each side covered it

Our own reading of the reporting listed below, written from the outlets’ articles rather than quoted from them. The reasoning is set out on our methodology page.

Left

14 rated outlets

  • The seven left‑rated digests all led on the fact that the bill will test the limits of Ottawa's power to quash strikes. Each noted that labour experts said the Liberal government is testing the limits of its powers to intervene in collective bargaining. They also mentioned the amendment to Section 107 that would give the labour minister explicit authority.

Centre

7 rated outlets

  • The five centre‑rated digests similarly highlighted the amendment to Section 107 and the experts' comment that the government is testing its power to intervene in bargaining. They also reported that the bill will test the limits of Ottawa's ability to quash strikes.

Right

0 rated outlets

No outlet rated right ran this story. We watched the coverage until it stopped changing, and none appeared.

Questions about this coverage

How did the left and right cover Bill C-39 seeks to give Canada labour minister explicit authority under…?
Of the 21 outlets on this story carrying a published leaning rating, 67% are rated left, 33% are rated centre, 0% are rated right. Those percentages are shares of the rated outlets, not of every outlet that ran it, which was 22. The sections above set out what each side emphasised, in its own terms.
Is Bill C-39 seeks to give Canada labour minister explicit authority under… left or right?
Neither side dominates it. Of the 21 rated outlets on this story, 67% are rated left, 33% are rated centre, 0% are rated right, and no side holds the 70% this site would want before calling a field one-sided. A story is not left or right in any case; the outlets that carried it are what carry ratings.
Is the coverage of Bill C-39 seeks to give Canada labour minister explicit authority under… biased?
Bill C-39 seeks to give Canada labour minister explicit authority under Section 107 is one event reported by 22 outlets, and this page does not rate the story as biased or unbiased. What it publishes is the spread: which outlets ran it, where named rating organisations place each of them on the spectrum, and what each side chose to lead with. A leaning rating describes an outlet's record over time, not this article, and the two should not be run together.
Which side is not reporting Bill C-39 seeks to give Canada labour minister explicit authority under…?
When we first saw this story, outlets rated right had barely covered it. Coverage accretes for hours after an event, so that is where to look rather than a verdict — the split above is the current count, and it is the one to read.
Which outlets covered Bill C-39 seeks to give Canada labour minister explicit authority under…?
22 that we know of, every one of them listed further up this page with a link to its own report and to what we hold on the publisher. Nothing here is a summary of somebody else's summary: the outlets are named so the original reporting can be read.
What does Bill C-39 propose?
Bill C-39 proposes amending Section 107 of the Canada Labour Code to give the labour minister explicit authority to intervene in collective bargaining, according to the reports from all twelve outlets.
Who says the government is testing its powers?
Labour experts are quoted in the digests as saying the Liberal government is testing the limits of its powers to intervene in collective bargaining and to quash strikes.
What power would the amendment test?
The amendment would test Ottawa's power to quash strikes, as described by the experts cited in the reports.
Did any right‑leaning outlet cover the story?
No right‑rated outlet ran the story; none of the right‑rated digests mention the labour code proposal.

Read it at the source

22 outlets, grouped by the leaning a published rating gives them. Every headline links to the original; an underlined outlet name opens our profile of that publisher.

Left

14
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Centre

7

Right

0

No outlet in this group ran the story.

Not rated

1

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