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| 1936, June 17 |
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| Supreme Court of Canada invalidated most of “New Deal” legislation enacted by the Bennett government in 1935. | 1 |
| Canada only country in the Commonwealth to give Hitler a Nazi salute at the Berlin Olympic games. | 2 |
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| 1937, Jan. 28 |
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| The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in London, England, declared unconstitutional the bulk of the “New Deal” legislation of the Bennett government, sustaining the decision of the Supreme Court of Canada. | 3 |
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| April |
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| The demand of the CIO for recognition of the local branch of the National Automobile Workers Association (an affiliate of the CIO) in the Oshawa, Ontario, plant of the General Motors Corp. led to a sit-down strike. More than 4,000 workers struck for an 8-hour day, higher wages, and better working conditions. Premier Hepburn of Ontario intervened, denounced the CIO, and brought about an agreement (April 23) granting concessions to workers on wages and working conditions but withholding recognition of the NAWA. | 4 |
| The Dominion minister of justice announced (March 24) that the sit-down strike was wholly illegal in Canada and that all the powers of the government would be used to prevent its use in the Dominion. | 5 |
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| Aug. 15 |
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| Prime Minister Mackenzie King appointed a royal commission (Rowell Commission) to study amendment of the British North America Act, which now seemed imperative in view of the court decisions on social and economic legislation. The commission was charged specifically to consider the economic and financial relations between the federal and provincial governments, but was given wide powers to investigate all phases of the confederation. | 6 |
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