Thank you, Mr. Speaker. In response to the first question, as I mentioned in my statement, the consultation will take place not only by members of the forum, but district education authorities, principals and other adult educators are invited to conduct consultation sessions within their communities so we can have the broadest possible consultation across the north. We will be advertising this consultation is ongoing and inviting written submissions from those who cannot attend the public forums, wherever they may be. Certainly, we would expect to have some input from teachers or the teachers' association, if the association should choose to submit.

In response to the second question, it was felt that it would be worthwhile to make sure that a reasonable number of communities were visited across the north to allow the holding of public meetings. However, given the amount of time that is available and budgetary constraints, it was not felt that it would be possible to get to all communities. What we tried to do was pick a representative sample of communities across the north, as was done for the student financial assistance forum. The members of the forum could travel to hear regional concerns, but not spend an awful lot of money and time getting out to each and every community. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My question is addressed to the Minister of power and electricity, the Power Corporation. I was wondering, could he indicate to the House the status of the eleventh hour negotiations that have been under way so that we can go home to our constituents with some idea of what is happening with this critical and essential service? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the situation has not changed from when I informed this House two days ago that we have not yet achieved a sign-off by all the parties on the transition agreement. There is still one area of difference. We will continue to press forward. I still believe that we will get all of the parties signing-off in a relatively short time and we will be able to deal with the legislation in the March sitting. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Could the Minister commit to informing the Members of this House if and when a deal is initialled and finalized so that we can, in fact, reassure our constituents that the one sticking issue on the road to division has been taken care of and that, in fact, we are going to be able to move ahead? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Absolutely. I will endeavour to, advise all Members, both east and west, of the political solution immediately, once achieved. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Just following up on Mr. Miltenberger's questions regarding the NWT Power Corporation, I have had a call from someone who is concerned. They are an employee of the corporation and naturally nearing retirement. They are concerned about their pension and so forth, what would happen. The main concern that this individual seemed to have was, the question of privatization, the potential for that. I wonder if the Minister could address that question. Is there a potential for privatization of the Power Corporation, either in the near term or in the long-term? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, some time ago, when asked this question, I informed this House that our government had considered whether or not to pursue privatization and had decided that for the life of this government, it would not. I cannot speak for future governments. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Perhaps I will take my chance that it may be a hypothetical, in the event of privatization would the pensions of our employees with the Power Corporation be at risk. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Are pensions of the current employees at all at risk? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. As I understand it, the current pension plan is a public service pension plan. Obviously, if a future government were to privatize the corporation, that pension plan could not stay within the public service. There would have to be some change. Since this government has no intention of addressing privatization I have not studied the issue. I would expect that even a future government would be required to work with the employees through their union if the initiative was to privatize and do what they could to protect the employees' interest and pensions. Mr. Speaker, I must reiterate that since we do not see this as part of our mandate to privatize the Power Corporation that we have not looked into what might happen to pensions in the future.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. When the Minister said in reference to no privatization for the life of this government, could the Minister state if that is to April 1, 1999, or until an election in the west? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Could the Minister clarify what he means by the life of this government? Thank you.