Mahsi, Mr. Speaker. My questions this afternoon are for Mr. Dent, the Minister responsible for the Workers' Compensation Board of the NWT and Nunavut, and it relates to the efforts by an injured worker to have his appeal heard before a freshly constituted board. Mr. Speaker, it's rare that an injured worker's appeal makes its way all the way to the Supreme Court. The onus is almost always on the worker to shoulder the expense, and the time, and the burden, and the energy that's required to get it this way, and I think it's to Mr. Valic's credit that he has persisted over the years to challenge and win these judgments. Now he is still a long, long way from actually receiving any tangible result. He still actually has, for instance, to get a favourable decision from this new tribunal and that is what I want to focus on, Mr. Speaker. So the question that I have now, 19 years after his accident, five years after he started action to appeal decisions and now six months after a Supreme Court ruling, Mr. Valic still waits to be heard. Why has it taken so long to assemble the fresh panel of tribunal adjudicators to rehear Mr. Valic's case, Mr. Speaker?
Bill Braden on Question 12-15(5): WCB Appeals Tribunal Rehearing For Ivan Valic
In the Legislative Assembly on May 31st, 2006. See this statement in context.
Question 12-15(5): WCB Appeals Tribunal Rehearing For Ivan Valic
Item 6: Oral Questions
May 30th, 2006
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