Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, the Northwest Territories Power Corporation right now certainly is run in a way that people feel disconnected from it and feel that it's not responding to their needs. It comes back to the bigger picture of people being unheard or feeling unheard. And, really, with the power corporation cycles back into the fact that we have extremely high rates of power and seemingly unable to catch up with that reality. I think we want to look -- in my mind, I want to look at what the actual problem here is. And that problem is the fact that we can't get a handle on our electricity use and the costs and the lack of alternatives here. So I'd like to first of all go back to the power corporation and ask them what they are doing to solve this problem. I know that one thing for certain is that if we can't get more commercial consumers for power, then we will never see meaningful movement in terms of our residential cost use because we don't have the cost -- we don't have the consumer base. If there was more consumers from an industrial perspective or from the industrial side, that will bring the cost of power down for everybody. So what do we need to do to do that? Right now, industry is looking for greener alternatives, for alternative energies. Most consumers are aware of the need for this. And obviously diesel is very expensive. What is their plan to make sure that we are bringing about having more high needs consumers to bring down the cost of power? What is the plan, then, to take these new forms of power, whether it's renewables, whether it's Taltson, whether it's micro grids in small communities, and make sure it's disseminated into people's homes? What is the plan to connect people into that, and what is the plan to update our infrastructure? These are huge questions. And the question that I want to make sure is that we have a plan to address every single one of those questions, that it's timed out, that we understand what opportunities are for Indigenous governments to have an equity stake in it, and that we get moving on finding those solutions. Thank you.
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