CALGARY -(MarketWatch)- Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd.'s CP, -0.16% Canadian operations restarted Friday morning, after federal government action ended a worker strike.
Rail freight operations across CP's system resumed at 7 a.m. EDT, according to a spokesman for the railway.
Canada's Senate, or upper house of Parliament, passed back-to-work legislation late Thursday, forcing 4,800 striking engineers, conductors and rail traffic controllers back to their jobs after just over a week on strike. The Senate vote was 47-27 in favor of the back-to-work bill.
Labor Minister Lisa Raitt introduced the back-to-work bill Monday in the House of Commons, the lower house of Parliament. The government says CP is crucial to the economy because it's a key link between commodity producers and Pacific coast ports, where goods are loaded on Asia-bound tankers.
The governing Conservatives hold a majority in both the houses of Parliament, so the passage of the bill was never in doubt.
(Nirmala Menon contributed to this article.)