I do not want to leave the proposed amalgamation of the NWT Power Corporation. I have no argument with the fact that you have to find a way to utilize POL tanks or NWT Power Corporation tanks, et cetera. But I do not think that is the reason for putting them together. We could do that now; a government policy could be developed. The superintendent at the local level along with the government representative could find some method to utilize the existing tanks. I have a problem with that. But that is not my argument.

My argument, or my concern, is similar to Mr. Lewis'. We are putting a terrible amount of power -- if you will excuse the pun -- and a terrible amount of influence under the one umbrella. I am not sure, for example, what would the Public Utilities Board's role would be if POL was under the NWT Power Corporation. What is its role in this thing? I am not convinced the NWT Power Corporation is being run efficiently. Some are; but I am not.

I find it interesting that there is no -- I cannot find it, anyway --but with respect to this NWT Power Corporation, there is no privatization component to it in the report. Let us sell it; let us run it more efficiently. I am told that it can be done by some people. I do not know. I do not see any reference to it in this report. All I see a reference to is making it bigger.

So the issue of utilization of tankage, bulk buying of fuel -- they are administrative problems that could be solved. The real issue is, what is it going to cost us and who controls it? So I am wondering if somebody could advise me on -- hypothetically, if this took place, how would we see it being controlled with respect to its charge-back to the client? I wonder if the Government Leader could give me some indication, if we were to fast-track the privatization of the Power Corporation, how would POL have been affected there? I am a little unclear on that. So I wonder about the protective mechanism to ensure that the charges are appropriate, and the PUB is currently performing that function, I understand, for the NWT Power Corporation. I believe Mr. Pollard said himself that if we sold the Power Corporation we could solve our deficit problem.

So I wonder what the Government Leader's position would be on should, -- and again hypothetically -- we privatize the Power Corporation, where would POL fit in on this privatization thrust? Thank you, Mr. Chairman.