Mr. Speaker, I have a return to an oral question asked by Tony Whitford on February 23 regarding the causes of the power outage.
On Sunday, January 31, 1993, power supply to Giant Mine was interrupted at 12:04 pm. Relaying indicated a phase to ground fault. Line patrolling disclosed no reason to believe vandalism or third-party interference. The RCMP was not called and service was restored in approximately one hour. No other customers were affected, except Nerco which lost some process machinery.
The status of the RCMP investigation into the suspected third-party interference in the early months of the Giant strike is continuing. Charges have not been laid and the intentions of the police are now known to Power Corporation officials.
Mr. Speaker, I have a long-overdue return to oral question asked by Mr. Ningark on December 1.