Bob Layton exposes WCB on Global Television.

October 28th 2009

 

Bob Layton remarks that WCB Offices in Edmonton are known for great security, and that they need it. Bob openly tells the audience that in all the years he has been doing editorials, the number one complaint has been the WCB.

 

Bob claims to have had at times, stacks of files from very unhappy and desperate injured workers. The complaints all seem to come down to the same basic thing, “I was hurt on the job……..”  (Click this link to watch the video)

 

This video is perfect for all those people who are in denial about what is happening to injured workers. Also very clear is that our governments have left little options besides taking either illegal or extreme actions as options for those who want to do more than quit fighting for justice and live it out on skid row.

 

Many injured workers qualified as Permanently Disabled Workers under CPP Legislation, many more were rejected by CPP using WCB’s fabrication of facts that are later overturned by the Supreme Court of Appeals.

 

When the Government of British Columbia hired the Allan Hunt the American lawyer who also represents the Business Council of British Columbia, in the re-writing WCB Policy, is that not a deliberate action by government to allow a conflict of interest. Is it not clear there was complicity by the Government of British Columbia to railroad injured workers into accepting skid row?

 

This action is akin to putting a mafia leader as head investigator into the mafia. Do you think the public would be protected? Why then would you expect Allen Hunt to be impartial if he already was representing the Business Council of British Columbia? Who at this point an time was protecting the public, the working men and women of the province?

 

This is only one example of corruption where it becomes questionable as to who is running our governments, the people or big business?

 

Many injured workers qualified for CPP benefits after denial by CPP by going to the Supreme Court of Appeals. The Supreme Court of Appeals is required to follow what is called “real world” approach to determine if a person is capable of returning to work.

 

WCB all across Canada is allowed to use the “Imaginary World” that says “if” you can do something for 5 min, or one hour, or one day, you can do it 40 hours a week as well. In many cases they do not even take into account that those 5min or day were accomplished by the use of opium drugs.

 

The rational used by its agents "private assessment centers" is often like this, if you can hold a pen for one hour, there is no reason why you could not be a full time secretary. This is not a joke, I have evidence to prove this mentality is in use today. These centers get very lucrative contracts based on end result by the WCB all across Canada.

 

Likewise if you rule in favor of too many injured workers, you also lose all WCB contracts.

 

In WCB’s “imaginary world", to qualify for compete permanent disability, you must be more than quadriplegic, in fact in their fictitious world only the dead would qualify, however they are not required to pay dead people.

 

As is often the case after losing in the Supreme Court of Appeals, the WCB will as a matter of policy, simply start over with your files. They hire an independent “friendly to WCB” company to re-access you. This person does not even need to have a medical degree, but WCB accepts their expertise over that of what the court has already accepted.

 

The simple cop out is that it was not WCB who said a claimant was capable of returning to work, so WCB is off the hook for the end result, namely a denial of the claim.

 

Ask WCB yourself, they very clearly have a policy that they do not recognize pain as a reason not to work, pain is purely a subjective argument. Maybe that is one thing WCB has in their favor, without pain as a factor, few of their claimants would qualify for WCB benifits.

 

There are no works strong enough to express that WCB is doing its best to never pay any injured worker, but the method they use today is a guaranteed ticket to creating future terrorists.

 

The abuse, lies, fabrication of truth, harassment, use of spies  willing to lie on record. Please see the Katherine Lippel Report in WCB Policing. Katherine Lippel is a Professor of Law and Canada Research Chair on Occupational Health and Safety Law. (Click here to Read)

 

The end result, regardless of the differing stories by the Permanently Injured Workers all across Canada is the same, namely abuse stacked on abuse, then each and every one ends in denial of claim, with no avenue other than accept it or take illegal actions to correct it.

 

WCB all across Canada is so incredibly fortunate that there are so many injured workers who would rather lose everything, than break the law.

 

It was good to see Bob Layton cares, because its people like him, and reports like these that are the best method of preventing a deadly act of terrorism.

 

One must ask oneself, if Mr. Clayton had seen this report before entering the WCB Buildings, would he have proceeded? I for one do not think so.

 

Maybe our courts need to look at this entire hostage issue from a different perspective. If someone hires a hit man to commit a murder, who then is guilty of committing murder? Likewise, if you drive a man over the edge and he commits a crime, who is responsible for that crime? Should not the WCB be charged with the very crime they inadvertently created? At very least should not a psychiatrist evaluate if the WCB was a primary contributing factor in Mr. Claytons actions, and if it is so should Mr. Clayton be treated the same as other terrorists?

 

 

WCB Staff Writer