TSSA Announces Multi-Year Fee Freeze

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (Toronto, ON, January 15, 2015) – The Technical Standards and Safety Authority
(TSSA) is pleased to announce that its current fee schedules, which were set May 1, 2013, will remain
unchanged through to April 30, 2017 resulting in a four-year fee freeze across all its program areas except Boilers
and Pressure Vessels.

"This four-year fee freeze affirms our commitment to reducing financial impacts on business, to ensuring our
organization's operational efficiency, and above all, ensuring public safety as it relates to our mandated industry
sectors," said TSSA President and CEO, Michael Beard.

As a broader public sector entity, TSSA is committed to supporting the Government of Ontario's strategic
objectives to reduce financial and administrative burdens on business and spur the economy, while continuing to
ensure public safety in the sectors it is mandated to regulate.

TSSA charges fees for its public safety services on a cost-recovery basis and is committed to providing value for
money across all its safety programs. These fees are set out with the intent to:

- Reasonably reflect sector and service activity, such as engineering and inspection, within each program.
- Ensure that, in addition to their direct and indirect costs, licensing, registration and certification fees recover safety infrastructure costs such as standards and codes work, investigations, prosecutions, regulatory enhancements, and re-investments in public safety.
- Be uniformly applied, regardless of geographic location.
- Include incentives/disincentives for high/low levels of compliance.

"Over the past year, TSSA has embarked on a concerted and successful strategy to control costs. This fee freeze
will be achieved through ongoing operational efficiencies, which will ultimately benefit businesses, consumers and
the broader public," added Mr. Beard.

[harshal]

Good initiative.