To start with, Mr. O'Toole, the problem with the current regime flows from a change that was made in 2013. At that time, as I understand it, the contracting jurisdictions made the request that the health needs of RCMP members operating within their geographic jurisdictions fall within the jurisdiction of provincial compensation boards.
What was transferred at that time was the ongoing regular health requirements, but not occupational issues. Occupational issues were retained under the management authority of the RCMP. That caused two problems.
Number one, the RCMP had to set up an administration for handling these, and it contains within it two defects: it doesn't have a proper independent adjudication process and it doesn't have an appeal process. In other words, it is strictly a management decision as to whether there is an occupational issue or not.
That ought not to be a management decision per se. To give the authority to the compensation boards actually provides for better adjudication.