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Abstract
This thesis examines mandatory drug testing in employment. Because there are no guidelines offered by the executive or legislative branch of the Canadian or Ontarian governments, individual companies have implemented their own policies of mandatory drug testing. However, legal issues arise from these policies. This thesis will analyze the "well foundedness" of mandatory drug testing with a theoretical description of the effects of different drugs on a person's faculties and health. Our exploration of the effects of narcotics will lead us to the perceived need to regulate their usage in society, thus providing an explanation for the leap from the regulation of drugs in the criminal context to its regulation in the workplace. In this thesis, we will also study the policies of mandatory drug testing instituted by two prominent Canadian enterprises--The Toronto Dominion Bank and Imperial Oil, Ltd. Since most mandatory drug tests take the form of urinalysis, we will explain what urinalysis involves, its accuracy and the concerns it raises. The most important concern is the violation of privacy. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
