Mr. Speaker, I am not yet well enough briefed on the issues surrounding the Workers' Compensation Board to make a commitment like that today. I would ask the honourable Member to give me the opportunity, which I have not yet really had, partly because of my own schedule and the schedule of the chairman and other key people involved with the Workers' Compensation Board, to sit down and get myself briefed. Mr. Speaker, in doing that briefing I would want to find out where most claims and most business affecting the Workers' Compensation Board originates. I am told that because of medical facilities and because of the proximity of mines and other industrial activities in this region, that that is some justification for the present location of the board. However, I do not want to indicate that I have made up my mind on the question. I would like the chance to review it; to sit down with present members of the WCB and to look very carefully at that important issue before I say here today whether I am going to commit to a decentralization plan or not. I would like the Member to give me a little more time.
Dennis Patterson on Question O162-12(1): Composition Of Workers' Compensation Board
In the Legislative Assembly on December 18th, 1991. See this statement in context.
Further Return To Question O162-12(1): Composition Of Workers' Compensation Board
Question O162-12(1): Composition Of Workers' Compensation Board
Item 5: Oral Questions
December 17th, 1991
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Dennis Patterson Iqaluit
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