Thank you, Madam Speaker. The decision of Cabinet and myself was that we were not going to touch any of the rates for residential units in any community. The only thing we were trying to do in the department was to equalize the subsidy that is transferred to the hamlets, and make it so that it's equal for tax-based municipalities, for example, Fort Smith. That's basically what this policy was trying to do, to equalize the subsidy for water and sewer in tax-based municipalities.

The reduction of subsidy to hamlets and municipalities was for commercial users only, not residential users. Thank you, Madam Speaker.