Thank you, Mr. Chair. This motion recommends that the Minister ensure the Governance Council and the Workers' Compensation Board administration complete a draft communication protocol and an action plan to address the Auditor General's recommendations. Indeed, that is now before us to the extent of some 30 pages or so. Mr. Chair, I can say that a reasonable effort was made to respond to each of the recommendations. So we do, indeed, have something to work with here and in most cases.
The one that I would like to undertake here, Mr. Chair, is the draft communication protocol specifically. In this area here, it has been the cause of quite a bit of our frustration, and I might even go so far as to say mutual frustration, Mr. Chair, of not knowing quite what the channels are, the expectations between ourselves as MLAs representing constituents who, I would like to point out, may be workers. They may also be ratepayers or businesses that are paying premiums. So we have a diverse constituency. Who do I go to when I have an issue or a question that that constituent cannot get resolved? That is where we have run into a fair amount of our consternations and where the direction to come up with a communication protocol would be something that would help do this.
Mr. Chairman, the draft was tabled. It is some seven pages and I wanted to ask, given that the letter from the Minister on February 1st says that this protocol has now been approved by the WCB Governance Council, it's been approved by Mr. Krutko and by his Nunavut counterpart, and it's also apparently been approved by our Cabinet. So it's a draft communication protocol which has had lots of approvals all the way down the pipe, except for this committee. Mr. Chairman, I guess my first question is, is this still draft or, given the number of approvals, a very high level of approvals that has been given, is this essentially a fait accompli and this is being handed to us or do we actually have a chance to have some say in it?