The Public Revew Board was created by the delegates to the Founding Convention of the CAW/TCA Canada, September 1985, in Toronto, Ontario. The Board was established " for the purpose of ensuring a continuation of high moral and ethical standards in the administrative practices of the National union and its subordinate bodies, and to further strenghten the democratic processes and appeal procedure within the Union as they affect the rights and privileges of individual members or subordinate bodies..."
(Article 25, Section 1 of the CAW Constitution).