Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I am sure the honourable Member will appreciate that I am still just getting familiar with the operations of this board, but I do know that there have been no less than two major reviews conducted of the Workers' Compensation Board by an independent body within the last number of years. Before I agree to the idea of another review, Mr. Speaker, I would like to try working out a satisfactory working relationship with the Workers' Compensation Board and its staff by sitting down with the board, describing the issues as I understand them -- and I have already heard comments from MLAs on some of the problems as they view them and I am open to getting other advice from MLAs and others about issues that should be dealt with. But I would like to try to sort those out by sitting down with the members of the board and seeing if new approaches and new policies can lead to better communications, particularly with MLAs.

I would like to ask the honourable Member to give me a chance to see if I can deal with his concerns. If I find that I do not have co-operation from the board, then it may be necessary to review its status in relation to the government. But I would like to take the opportunity to discuss these concerns face-to-face with members of the board and see if they can be solved in that kind of a co-operative manner, and early in the new year.