In essence, the big difference with the board of appeal versus the current recourse process.... The same levels of recourse are still in place. The same number of levels of recourse are still in place. Somebody who does not get benefits would have the right to request reconsideration. Currently, somebody who was dissatisfied with that decision would appeal that to the Social Security Tribunal, general division, for EI. The second level would be to the appeal division.
The same thing would be in place with the introduction of the board of appeal. It's simply that the reconsideration decision would get appealed to the board of appeal, and then the appeal right for a board of appeal decision would be to the SST appeal division.
It's a replacement, a one-for-one replacement, with all of the additional benefits that Rouba has already discussed with regard to the tripartite nature of the new tribunal.