The Chair is solely responsible for the Review and the preparation of the Report. The members of the Chair's Advisory Committee provided their insights based on their extensive experience with workers and businesses, and from their varied perspectives on the social and economic issues that arise in the context of Ontario's workplace safety and insurance system.

Staff of the Funding Review were seconded by the WSIB and maintained arm's length relationship with the Board.

Please review the biography section for more information on the Chair, Advisory Committee and the WSIB Funding Review Team.

Harry W. Arthurs,

Funding Review Chair

University Professor Emeritus, former Dean of Osgoode Hall Law School (1972-77) and former President of York University (1985-92), Harry Arthurs previously served as Commissioner to review federal labour standards legislation (2004-06) and as Commissioner reviewing Ontario's pension legislation (2006-08).

Professor Arthurs is a former member of the Economic Council of Canada, a former Bencher of the Law Society of Upper Canada, a former President of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association and a former Associate of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy, Canada Council Killam Laureate in Social Sciences (2002), and winner of the Bora Laskin Award for Contributions to Labour Law (2002) and of the International Labour Organization Decent Work Research Prize (2008). He is a member of the Order of Canada and the Order of Ontario, and holds numerous honorary degrees.

His publications range widely over the areas of labour and administrative law, legal education and the legal profession, globalization and constitutionalism. He has been an arbitrator and mediator in labour disputes, has conducted inquiries and reviews at Canadian, British and American universities, and has provided advice to governments on a number of issues ranging from higher education policy to the Constitution to labour and employment law.

Maureen Farrow is President of Economap Inc., a firm specializing in interpreting the impact of global economic trends on financial markets to assist portfolio managers with asset allocation decisions.

During her career, Ms. Farrow has specialized in applied economics, forecasting and policy development. She is widely recognized for her frequent public speaking engagements on global economic trends, international trade issues, Canadian and regional economics, demographics, competitiveness and the environment.

She currently serves as a Director of the Equitable Life Insurance Company of Canada and a member of the Investment Committees of WorkSafeBC and the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) — the workers' compensation boards for British Columbia and Ontario respectively. She is a member of the British North American Committee. Ms. Farrow has also served as a Public Governor of the Toronto Stock Exchange (1993–94), Director of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce (1990–96) and as a Board member of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (1985–91). She served as President of the Canadian Association of Business Economics (1983–85) and President of the Toronto Association of Business Economists (1979–80). In 1991, Ms. Farrow was made a Fellow of the Institute of Management Consultants in honour of her contribution as an economist to the business community. In 1996, she received the Commemorative Medal marking the 125th Anniversary of Confederation.

Ms. Farrow holds a Bachelor of Science (Honours) degree in Economics from Hull University, England (1966) and has undertaken postgraduate work at York University, Ontario.

Basil Eldon "Buzz" Hargrove is the former National President of the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) trade union. He is currently serving as a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Ryerson University's Ted Rogers School of Management and is the External Executive Director of the newly created Centre for Labour Management Relations at the School.

Mr. Hargrove first became involved in the automotive sector as a line worker for the Chrysler assembly plant in Windsor, Ontario. He served as President of the CAW from 1992 to 2008.

Mr. Hargrove co-authored the book Labour of Love: The Fight to Create a More Humane Canada with Wayne Skene (1998) and is the author of a second book entitled Laying It on the Line (2009).

In 1998, Brock University honoured Mr. Hargrove with a Doctorate of Laws degree. He has also received honorary doctorates from the University of Windsor (2003), Wilfrid Laurier University (2004) and Queen's University (2009), in addition to honorary doctorates from the University of New Brunswick, Ryerson University and McMaster University. He is an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1998.

From February 27, 2009 to November 2009, Buzz Hargrove was the interim Ombudsman for the National Hockey League Players' Association.

John O'Grady is a consulting economist specializing in the analysis of labour markets and is a founding partner of Prism Economics and Analysis. Mr. O'Grady's consulting focuses primarily on the construction industry, information technology occupations and regulated professions. He also assists trade unions in their bargaining and arbitration activities, as well as in their representations to governments on policy issues.

In 1992, Mr. O'Grady was Visiting Senior Researcher at the Economic Council of Canada. He has also taught on a sessional basis at York University and Ryerson University. He was previously Research Director and Legislative Director at the Ontario Federation of Labour. Prior to joining the Ontario Federation of Labour, he was the representative in Asia for the Canadian Labour Congress and the Brussels-based International Confederation of Free Trade Unions.

Mr. O'Grady is currently Chair of the Institute for Work and Health. He was formerly President of the Toronto Business Development Centre. He holds a Master's degree in Economics from the University of Toronto.

John Tory is a lawyer, corporate director, broadcaster and community activist. He is the volunteer chair of the Greater Toronto Civic Action Alliance (formerly Toronto City Summit Alliance) and is active in many charitable organizations.

Mr. Tory practised law for 12 years as a management partner of one of Canada's biggest law firms and was subsequently President and Chief Executive Officer of both Rogers Media Inc. and Rogers Cable.

Mr. Tory served as a Member of Provincial Parliament in Ontario and as Leader of the Official Opposition.

Today, he is on the Boards of Directors of Rogers Communications Inc., Metro Inc. and a number of other companies. He is the host of a daily radio talk show on Newstalk 1010 and co-host of Focus Ontario on Global Television.

After graduating from the University of Toronto with a specialist degree in Economics and Political Science (1982), Joe Morsillo worked with a transportation trade association for one year as an economics analyst.

Mr. Morsillo has worked at the WSIB for over 25 years and has held various positions. Soon after joining the WSIB as an initial adjudicator in 1984, he was promoted to senior adjudicator and subsequently moved on to the Finance division, where he acquired extensive experience on funding and rate-setting issues in the Actuarial Services Branch.

Mr. Morsillo also worked as a junior and senior policy analyst in the former Revenue Policy Branch, where he was promoted to manager, a position he held until 2003. Other positions he held include Executive Assistant to the Vice President of Policy and Research, Acting Executive Director of Policy and Research, and Project Director for the Stakeholder Funding Information Sessions that took place between 2004 and 2005. He was appointed Director of Benefits and Revenue Policy Branch (November 2005 to October 2008).

In addition to being seconded as a staff Senior Advisor to the Funding Review, Mr. Morsillo has held other senior positions in the past three years, including Executive Director of the Revenue Division, Executive Director of Service Delivery, and Vice President of Policy Services and Appeals Division.

In November 2011, after completing his one-year secondment to the Funding Review, Joe was appointed to the position of Vice President, Service Delivery Division – Short Term.

Serge Recchi graduated from the University of Western Ontario with a Bachelor of Laws degree and became a lawyer in 1991. He also has a degree in Administrative Studies from York University.

Mr. Recchi articled at a Toronto law firm that specializes in labour law, human rights, occupational health and safety, and workers' compensation.

He joined the then-Workers' Compensation Board in 1991 as Legal Counsel and was promoted to Senior Legal Counsel in 1997. While in Legal Services, he worked on a wide variety of legal, policy and quasi-legal matters for the Board of Directors, senior management and other staff. In later years, Mr. Recchi acquired extensive legal knowledge and experience on collection, revenue and employer-related matters. He has participated in both internal and external committees.

In 2007, Mr. Recchi joined Regulatory Services as a Senior Prosecutor, where he focuses on prosecuting various regulatory offences under the Workplace Safety and Insurance Act .

Diane Weber joined the WSIB in 2004 as Business Lead of Special Projects for the Chief of Corporate Services. Shortly after her arrival, she was asked to assume the responsibilities as Director, Corporate Executive. As the President and CEO’s designate, Ms Weber was the government liaison on all matters including policy, issues management, finance and administration. Working collaboratively with the Chair’s Office and the Corporate Secretary’s Office, Ms. Weber also oversaw the requirements of the Board of Directors.

Prior to joining the WSIB, Ms. Weber was with the Ontario public service. In her 20-plus years of service with the Ontario government, she held a number of progressively responsible positions with the Ministry of Labour, including Executive Assistant to the Deputy Minister, Manager of Policy and Issues Coordination, and a variety of management positions in finance and administration.

Ms. Weber is a business graduate of Ryerson University.

Tim Reed graduated from the University of Western Ontario with a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics (1981) and began his actuarial career doing pension valuations and other work for large life insurance companies in both Montreal and Toronto. He was hired by the Actuarial Services department at the then-Workers' Compensation Board in 1986 and is currently an actuarial associate.

Over the years, he has participated in many interesting projects on both the benefits and revenue sides of WSIB, and in the area of corporate initiatives. Mr. Reed has estimated the cost of legislative benefit enhancements and prepared net average earnings tables and benefit indexing factors used for determining injured workers' benefit levels. In 1992, he initiated work with the Conference Board of Canada economists to have them provide tailored economic forecasts for the newly introduced industry classes. He has helped train newly hired front-line staff on actuarial/financial matters and has represented Actuarial Services on many committees, including those established to develop corporate outcomes and measures, to design the WSIB's large data Enterprise Information Warehouse, and to undertake interjurisdictional workers' compensation studies and various injury-related studies.

Mr. Reed has been involved in consultations with stakeholders since the 1980s, especially on the subjects of experience rating plans, premium rates and industry classification issues, of which he has extensive knowledge.

Elizabeth Amaro joined the WSIB in 1988 as Secretary for Ethnic Services in the Communications Division. In her 20-plus years of service, Ms. Amaro has worked in many areas at the Board, including the Office of the Secretary and the Office of the Chair.

She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Toronto.