Thank you. So to clause 1.(1), clause 2, clause 3 and clause 4.
Debates of Aug. 21st, 2007
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Committee Motion 13-15(6): Amend Clause 124 Of Bill 15, Liquor Act, Carried
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Committee Motion 13-15(6): Amend Clause 124 Of Bill 15, Liquor Act, Carried
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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Committee Motion 13-15(6): Amend Clause 124 Of Bill 15, Liquor Act, Carried
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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Committee Motion 13-15(6): Amend Clause 124 Of Bill 15, Liquor Act, Carried
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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Committee Motion 13-15(6): Amend Clause 124 Of Bill 15, Liquor Act, Carried
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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Committee Motion 14-15(6): Amend Clause 12 Of Bill 6, Workers' Compensation Act, Carried
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Jane Groenewegen Hay River South
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I move that clause 12 of Bill 6 be amended by renumbering paragraphs (a.1) to (c) as paragraphs (b) to (d) respectively. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
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Committee Motion 14-15(6): Amend Clause 12 Of Bill 6, Workers' Compensation Act, Carried
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Some Hon. Members
Question
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The Chair David Ramsay
Question has been called. All those in favour? All those opposed? Motion is carried. Thank you, Mrs. Groenewegen.
---Carried
Thank you, committee. Clause 12, as amended.
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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Sandy Lee Range Lake
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, this is a clause on causation, which obviously is one of the crucial components in this new legislation. As was indicated in the committee report, there have been amendments to this legislation to make the standard of proving cause as being something that's dominant in the workplace. I'm wondering, regarding dominant causes of workplace injury, and I'm wondering if, for the interest of those who are listening to this, the Minister or his staff could explain how this would be implemented in the real cases? Thank you.
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Committee Motion 14-15(6): Amend Clause 12 Of Bill 6, Workers' Compensation Act, Carried
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Committee Motion 14-15(6): Amend Clause 12 Of Bill 6, Workers' Compensation Act, Carried
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Doyle
This particular amendment or this change to this clause will require some policy changes by the Workers' Compensation Board. What it does is it changes from using a dominant cause to a material cause. So in doing so, it still requires that the work related cause of injury is not a trivial cause but is still a material cause. So it should not cause a large change in the way we do business, but, at the same time, it may actually reduce some of the administrative effort in trying to determine what the dominant cause is of the injury.
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Sandy Lee Range Lake
Thank you. I think my question might have been confusing, so I just wanted to get more. I think I would like to hear some more specifics from Mr. Doyle. I guess how the bill was written and presented to the House, it suggested a dominant cause to be a factor in determining cause of injury. We have changed that. We have done away with that dominant cause and we have made it, I think to my mind, a lesser burden to say if there's a material cause to workplace being the case of injury or diseases, then one would be compensable. Now, that's how I read it. I'm willing to be corrected if I'm wrong in that. I am interested in hearing, from either Mr. Doyle or any of the panel members, as to how this will be different than how it has been done before without this law being there. Mr. Doyle mentioned that he didn't think there was a whole lot of difference, but I'd like to think that there is still a difference in terms of how the causation is determined. For the record and for the interest of those who are listening to how we are changing this legislation, I would like to hear what the change will be. Thank you.
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Doyle
The best answer would be that, yes, it is a lower threshold the worker has to achieve in order, from his standpoint, to show that the injury is compensable, and that is the intent of the change.
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