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In the Supreme Court of Canada Sheila Fullowka, Doreen Shauna Hourie, Tracey Neill, Judit Pandev, Ella May Carol Riggs, Doreen V Court File No. 32735 IN THE SUPREME COURT OF CANADA (ON APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE NORTHWEST TERRITORIES) BETWEEN: SHEILA FULLOWKA, DOREEN SHAUNA HOURIE, TRACEY NEILL, JUDIT PANDEV, ELLA MAY CAROL RIGGS, DOREEN VODNOSKI, CARLENE DAWN ROWSELL, KAREN RUSSELL, BONNIE LOU SA WLER Appellants (Applicants) - and- PINKERTON'S OF CANADA LIMITED, GOVERNMENT OF THE NORTHWEST TERRITORIES AS REPRESENTED BY THE COMMISSIONER OF THE NORTHWEST TERRITORIES, NATIONAL AUTOMOBILE, AEROSPACE, TRANSPORTATION AND GENERAL WORKERS UNION OF CANADA, TIMOTHY ALEXANDER BETTGER, ROYAL OAK VENTURES INC. (formerly Royal Oak Mines Inc.) Respondents AND BETWEEN: JAMES O'NEIL Appellant (Applicant) - and- PINKERTON'S OF CANADA LIMITED, GOVERNMENT OF THE NORTHWEST TERRITORIES AS REPRESENTED BY THE COMMISSIONER OF THE NORTHWEST TERRITORIES, NATIONAL AUTOMOBILE, AEROSPACE, TRANSPORTATION AND GENERAL WORKERS UNION OF CANADA AND TIMOTHY ALEXANDER BETTGER Respondents FACTUM OF THE RESPONDENT NATIONAL AUTOMOBILE, AEROSPACE, TRANSPORTATION AND GENERAL WORKERS UNION OF CANADA SACK GOLDBLATT MITCHELL LLP SACK GOLDBLATT MITCHELL LLP 20 Dundas Street West 30 Metcalfe Street Suite 1100, P.O. Box 180 Ottawa, Ontario Toronto, Ontario M5G 2G8 KIP 5L4 Steven Barrett Colleen Bauman Tel: 416-977-6070 Tel: 613-235-5327 Fax: 416-591-7333 Fax: 613-235-3041 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] CHIVERS CARPENTER LAWYERS Ottawa Agent for the National Automobile, Suite 101, 10426 81 Avenue Aerospace, Transportation and General Edmonton, Alberta Workers Union of Canada T6E 1X5 Patrick Nugent Tel: 780-439-3611 Fax: 780-439-8543 Email: [email protected] Co-counsel for the National Automobile, Aerospace, Transportation and General Workers Union of Canada TO: BISHOP & McKENZIE LLP OSLER, HOSKIN & HARCOURT LLP 2500 - 10104, 103rd Avenue 340 Albert Street, Suite 1900 Edmonton, Alberta Ottawa, Ontario T5J IV3 KIP 6L2 J. Philip Warner, Q.C. Patricia J. Wilson Telephone: 403-421-2464 Tel: 613-787-1009 Fax: 403-426-1305 Fax: 613-235-2867 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Counsel for the Applicants Sheila FuIlowka, Ottawa Agent for the Applicants Sheila Fullowka, Doreen Shauna Hourie, Tracey Neill, Judit Pandev, Doreen Shauna Hourie, Tracey Neill, Judit Pandev, Ella May Carol Riggs, Doreen Vodnoski, Carlene Ella May Carol Riggs, Doreen Vodnoski, Carlene Dawn Rowsell, Karen Russell and Bonnie Lou Dawn Rowsell, Karen Russell and Bonnie Lou Sawler Sawler JAMES E. REDMOND, Q.C. OSLER, HOSKIN & HARCOURT LLP 1000 Manulife Place 340 Albert Street, Suite 1900 10180-101 Street Ottawa, Ontario Edmonton, Alberta KIP 6L2 T5J 3S4 Patricia J. Wilson Tel: 780-409-8289 Tel: 613-787-1009 Fax: 780-423-2368 Fax: 613-235-2867 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Counsel for the Applicant James O'Neill Ottawa Agent for the Applicant James O'Neill DUNCAN & CRAIG LLP LANG MICHENER LLP 2800 Scotia Place Suite 300 10060 Jasper Avenue 50 O'Connor Street Edmonton, Alberta Ottawa, Ontario T5J 3V9 KIP 6L2 John M. Hope, Q.C. Jeffrey Beedell Tel: 780-428-6036 Tel: 613-232-7171 ext. 122 Fax: 780-428-9683 Fax: 613-231-3191 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Counsel for Pinkerton's of Canada Ltd. Ottawa agent for Pinkerton's of Canada Ltd. FIELDLLP LANG MICHENER LLP 2000 Oxford Tower Suite 300 10235 - 101 St. N.W. 50 O'Connor Street Edmonton, Alberta Ottawa, Ontario T5J 3Gl KIP 6L2 Peter D. Gibson Jeffrey Beedell Tel: 780-424-7116 Tel: 613-232-7171 ext. 122 Fax: 780-428-9329 Fax: 613-231-3191 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Counsel for the Government of the Northwest Ottawa agent for the Government of the Northwest Territories Territories MacPHERSON LESLIE & TYERMAN LLP LANG MICHENER LLP 4505 Canterra Tower Suite 300 400 - 3rd Ave S.W. 50 O'Connor Street Calgary, Alberta Ottawa, Ontario T2P 4H2 KIP 6L2 S. Leonard Polsky Jeffrey Beedell Tel: 403-693-4306 Tel: 613-232-7171 ext. 122 Fax: 403-508-4349 Fax: 613-231-3191 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Counsel for Timothy Alexander Bettger Ottawa agent for Timothy Alexander Bettger PARLEE McLAWS LLP MACLAREN CORLETT LLP 1500, 10180 -101 Street Suite 1625,50 O'Connor Street Edmonton, Alberta Ottawa, Ontario T5J 4Kl KIP 6L2 Robert G. McBean, Q.C. Stephen J. Grace Tel: 780-423-8580 Tel: 613-233-1146 Fax: 780-423-2870 Fax: 613-233-7190 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Solicitors for Royal Oak Ventures Inc. Ottawa Agents for Royal Oak Ventures Inc. Table of Contents PART 1- OVERVIEW AND STATEMENT OF FACTS ............................................... 1 A. The Appellants' facta .............................................................................................. 1 B. The labour dispute ................................................................................................... 1 C. Roger Warren murders nine miners ........................................................................ 2 D. CAW-National's involvement in the labour dispute .............................................. 4 PART II - QUESTIONS IN ISSUE ............................................................................. 8 PART III - STATEMENT OF ARGUMENT ............................................................... 8 A. CAW-National and Local 4 are separate legal entities ........................................... 8 (i) Governing labour law principles and the statutory regime ............................... 9 (ii) The constating documents establish separate local status ............................... 10 (iii)Response to the Appellants' submissions ....................................................... 11 B. CAW-National is not tortiously liable for the murder of the nine miners ............ 15 (i) Requirements for creating duty of care on CAW-National not met ............... 15 (ii) CAW-National's conduct did not fall below any standard of care ................. 25 (iii)CA W-National did not cause Warren's act of murder .................................... 28 (iv)"Concerted action liability": CAW-National is not a joint tortfeasor with Warren in committing murder ............................... 32 C. CAW-National is not vicariously liable for Warren's act of murder .................... 34 (i) Union-member relationship does not give rise to vicarious liability .............. 35 (ii) No close connection between any functions or powers assigned to Warren and Warren's deliberate act of murder .......................................... 37 PART IV and V - COSTS AND ORDERREQUESTED ..................................... .40 PART VI - TABLE OF AUTHORITIES PART VII - STATUTORY PROVISIONS PART I - OVERVIEW AND STATEMENT OF FACTS 1. On September 18, 1992, Roger Warren, acting entirely alone, planted explosives deep in the Giant Mine in Yellowknife deliberately killing nine miners. Warren was later convicted of nine counts of second degree murder. The murders occurred during a labour dispute between Royal Oak Mines Ltd. and Canadian Association of Smelter and Allied Workers, Local 4 ("Local 4"), the bargaining agent representing Royal Oak's employees. The Appellants ask this Court to reverse the Court of Appeal, and hold the National Automobile, Aerospace, Transportation and General Workers Union of Canada ("CAW-National") legally responsible for Warren's murderous acts. However, to impose legal liability, either direct or vicarious, on CAW­ National for allegedly contributing to a individual's frame of mind, thereby causing him to commit murder, would stretch the bounds of tort liability beyond any fair or reasonable limit. A. The Appellants' facta 2. Throughout their facta, the Appellants distort and inaccurately state the facts to exaggerate CAW-National's role in the strike. Even on a cursory review, and as set out more fully below, the Appellants' citations to the record often do not support their allegations. l B. The labour dispute 3. The Giant Mine labour dispute began on May 22, 1992. Workers at the mine were represented by Local 4, which was one of six locals affiliated with Canadian Association of Smelter and Allied Workers ("CASAW-National"). CASA W-National's constitution established and recognized the independence of CASAW local unions, as did Local 4's bylaws.2 Tthe Fullowka Appellants sought to add Local 4's successor (CAW Local 2304) as a defendant in I In addition, many of the Appellant's citations are to discovery evidence (both transcript and video) read­ into the Record. The trial judge ruled early on in the trial that read-ins could be used only against the party who gave the evidence: CA W-National's Record ("CAW Record")-Vol. 1: Ruling on Read-ins, 34:44-35:34 (Tab 2, pp. 5-6). Insofar as CAW-National is a separate legal entity from Local 4, the Appellants cannot rely on read-ins of members or officers of Local 4 against CAW-National: Fullowka et al. v. Royal Oak Ventures Inc., et ai, 2002 NWTSC 13 (CanLII), ,-r 2-3; Rule 266, Rules of the Supreme Court of the Northwest Territories, N.W.T. Reg. 010-96, as amended. 2 CAW Record-Vol. II: Exhibit 1005-CASAW Constitution, ss. 4(b) and 13 (Tab 92, pp. 328, 350); Exhibit 1006-Loca14 Bylaws (Tab 93, p. 366-372) (see also ,-r27-28 below). 2 March 1997, but the action was dismissed because it was commenced after the expiry of the statute of limitations.3 4. The President of CASAW-National, Ross Slezak, was a member of Local 4's bargaining team ex officio under the CASAW-National Constitution. He believed the tentative settlement reached prior to the strike was the best
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