Good. The chair of the Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board will probably correct me on that in the next hour.
The first comment I would make would be that the drafting of the legislation and the identification of the occupational health and safety issues long preceded Justice Wells' inquiry and the work that he had done. Certainly notwithstanding the incident and the tragedy that resulted in the workers perishing in the accident, the work that was done on the bill and the work to move forward with occupational health and safety was an effort to try to make sure there was clarity on what occupational health and safety encompassed, and how it would be addressed in the accord acts. It didn't speak to the structure of the offshore board in terms of its organizational design, except to say that the powers and roles of the board officials, who are responsible for safety, were clarified.
I'd have to say that there are a number of important aspects in the bill that address some of the issues that were raised by that report. Certainly there were 28 recommendations in that report that the board has moved forward with. Recommendation 29 had two parts, (a) and (b). Recommendation 29(a) recommended the separate safety regulator, and 29(b) recommended that within the current legislative framework there were a number of things the government could consider and the board could consider, and a number of practices that could be considered. Certainly a number of those things were well under way. A number of them have been addressed, and we continue to talk with our colleagues in Newfoundland and Labrador to address all of the elements that we have, and to ensure we have a safe workplace.
That said, the bill's amendments certainly are another step at moving forward and continuing to address occupational health and safety, and to ensure, to the extent we can, that workers in the workplace remain safe.