Well, thank you, Madam Speaker. I do appreciate the Premier's acknowledgement that her officials in the corporation feel badly about the problem. That's some small comfort. I guess I would just like to ask -- and I'm not an expert on technical issues, Madam Speaker -- but it seems that there was an inadequately designed level switch which stopped the machine in the first place. Then, as I understand from what the Premier said, the relay system failed to function. When there was an attempt to start another unit, another part of the protection failed and then there was a problem with the programmable logic controller.

I would like to ask the Premier, why did we have to learn all this when the town was in the dark? Doesn't the Power Corporation ever do checks on their back-up system so they can feel out these problems rather than testing them out in emergency situations?