Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I will not be voting on this motion, obviously, but I would like to have the chance to make a few comments, if I may. First of all, when I was first appointed to this position, I met with the Workers' Compensation Board at the first opportunity, and in the general discussion that followed one of the strong recommendations of the board and of the chairman to me was that they were having real difficulty getting on with their business because they were operating with a bare quorum. They said they had been waiting for some considerable time hoping that vacancies on the board would be filled, because it was impairing the operations of the board. This was also raised to me by the chairman, at one of our first meetings, as a problem that I should attend to, because it was impairing the operations of the board. When members from the four people who were on the board were unavailable, then the board could not meet and could not expeditiously do its work.

So, Mr. Chairman, that was put to me by the board and chairman as something that I should urgently deal with, and I proceeded to do so. Mr. Chairman, I would also like to note that, and I will refer to the chairman of the ABC committee's report that appointments, if made, "Where it is clearly in the public interest," and I would respectfully suggest that I at least had a basis for thinking it was necessary for this board to do its work to have a little bit more cushion on the quorum, that where those appointments were required that they "be made for the shortest possible term."

I would like to point out that although the Workers' Compensation Act allows appointments for up to a maximum of five years, I have made these two appointments for one year. So, Mr. Chairman, I think at least somewhat in the spirit of the motion of the House, these are short-term appointments and certainly not of the length that would ordinarily be filled. Finally...