Thank you. So the question was about the governance of the power corporation. Right now there is a board of deputy ministers and, you know, there's been much discussion about whether this is the appropriate way to go or whether it should be a fully public board. What we need to consider is the fact that, you know, the power corporation, they're there to keep the lights on. They're there to generate power. Sometimes it costs a lot more to generate power than we would like. And there's instances where the Government of the Northwest Territories has to chip in 10 or 20 or $30 million to keep those rates down. So there needs to be some level of accountability to the government if that's what's happening. And if an independent board comes and asks for $30 million, there's going to be a lot of questions. And so having some sort of insight and line of -- some sort of connection into that board I think is still important. There's obviously, though, a public desire to have public representation on a board. So there are options for some sort of a hybrid situation, but I don't think that we can just stand back and say okay, power corp, you go ahead and do your thing. It's too important, it's too fundamental to our territory to not have that level of accountability at a government level. Thank you.
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