Fixing the WSIB

ISSUE: The Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) has become a vast provincial government bureaucracy that is quickly becoming a danger to the Ontario government, taxpayers, businesses and insured workers.  In fact, over the course of the last 25 years, the WSIB have had significant challenges fulfilling its obligations. BACKGROUND: In the 2009-2010 Annual Report…

Bring Your Own Wine

“Bring Your Own Wine” legislation: September 2004 A letter outlining the chamber’s concerns with the proposed legislation permitting patrons to bring (and remove) their own wine to restaurants/bars was sent to the Minister of Consumer and Business Services with copies to local MPPs, the OCC and NOCC.