My reading of the bill and the requirements in the bill for the board to deal with these matters in 90 days means that a lot of our resources, if not all, will be focused on these types of applications—replacement workers and maintenance of activities—because we are asked to deal with these on an expedited basis. In the case of maintenance of activities, it's within 90 days.
We have only five full-time vice-chairs who can deal with the board's caseload, as I mentioned, and three who are part time. We have the ability to use external adjudicators, but the resources need to accompany that, because we need to pay these external adjudicators.
With the budget envelope we have now, if all our resources go towards maintenance of activities and replacement workers, there will be very few resources for other types of cases. We will therefore see an increased processing time for other types of cases—“just dismissal” cases, health and safety matters—that come to us. They'll have to take a back seat if this bill mandates a 90-day turnaround time on maintenance of activities. Right now it takes us, on average, 150 days, so we need to allot more resources and change the way we deal with these matters in order to meet the 90-day timeline, if we can.