Canada Post workers during a nationwide strike in downtown Toronto in October. Employment and Social Development Canada removed its historical data on labour negotiations in September.

The federal government has removed a key dataset from one of its departmental websites that details the number of strikes across the country, depriving labour experts and unions of key data needed for research and to draft policy.

Employment and Social Development Canada – the ministry that delivers federal programs such as employment insurance, and administers the temporary foreign worker program – collects historical data on labour negotiations, such as the number of work stoppages and wage increases negotiated by various unions.

But in September, the ministry removed the dataset from its website, sta

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