Well, it is not often that you are compared to Albert Schweitzer, so I'll take the compliment as a serious one. My understanding is that the Department of Health sends out a list of contagious diseases every month and I would like to add a new one to it, when it comes to WCB. I would like to define it as whining. Because no matter what you do in this arena, when you have bad news, they're not happy and when you have good news, they're not happy.
The fact of the matter is, the appointment of the new board two years ago -- which I hand picked, in consultation with people across the territories...
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Thank you, thank you. The appointment of the new chairman and the general manager are the primary reason we're in the position we are in today. Specifically, though, since the Member is concerned about the $13.3 million turnaround -- which we should all be grateful for, by the way -- it occurred because one, the assessment revenues were increased; two, we developed a new rehabilitation program. Instead of sending people to school, we sent them to train on the job which enabled them to go into the workforce far sooner than would normally be the case.
There was a reduction, thank goodness, in the cost of fatalities. And, there was decrease in the supplementary pensions that we had in 1992-93 and 1993-94. There were also a number of administrative tightening-up items that occurred in the Workers' Compensation Board.
As a whole, I'm told by the people across the territories that they're very happy about this. The recent announcement about some of the rates coming down and a few going up has added to their happiness. I hope that, in my small and simple way, I've managed to accommodate the Member and the press who like to write whining things.