We obviously recognize, as a government, as all Ontarians do, the value of the WSIB. It’s one of the largest insurance organizations in North America. But we know that it’s important to ensure that more dollars are always being able to go to the workers and not to administrative burdens. That’s why reducing the administrative burden for the WSIB will also enable them to work more efficiently and to create an agile system that is better able to cater to the needs of workers here in the province of Ontario. Codifying the WSIB’s long-standing operational practices is going to eliminate any operational confusion that might have come about between employers, workers and service providers alike.

While these changes are coming into effect—they’re going to align WSIB’s operational practices, but no substantial implementation steps are going to be required to support these amendments. It’s really going to ensure that we’re reducing some of those redundancies and codifying the practices that exist.