Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I will get to that in a moment. It occurred to me that I missed, in my previous answer to the Member, an important aspect that I think she will find interesting. For the past, year or so, the Housing Corporation, Education, Culture and Employment, and Health and Social Services have been working on a project to try to integrate our programs of support to people in the territories. Firstly, people will, it is hoped, be able to have one window to enter to discuss all of these programs. Number two, one of the problems we face is that there are different standards in each of our programs in terms of qualifying incomes. We are working at trying to establish a common set of standards. Work is being undertaken currently by this government to try and bring some uniformity to our programs.

In response to the Member's second question, the person applying for income support should be able to apply to an income support worker and have that income support worker assist them, in completing the form, which basically sets out what the person's income is and their expenses. are. At the end of the form, these are totalled and if there is a need for a subsidy, the income support program subsidizes the person. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The raven did it. Mr. Speaker, I am assuming that the Member is talking about the two power outages that were experienced in Yellowknife on Saturday. Those are the most recent ones that I am aware of. On Saturday, about 11:00 a.m., there was a power outage that did result from a raven on the Bluefish line. Approximately noon, there was a second outage which was as a result of frost build up on the Snare hydro line. This caused the line to sag and thus experience a ground fault interruption.

Earlier this month there was a power failure on the Snare line, again caused by frost build up which had been noticed in a helicopter surveillance flight. There was a team scheduled to remove the frost the next day, but before they could get to the site, the frost build up caused the line to sag and cause a ground fault.

Mr. Speaker, there have been some mechanical failures at the Snare hydro site this month that we have not been able to identify as to why those outages happened, other than something causes the breakers to trip mechanically.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I would expect in a situation where a raven has caused the power outage or where frost build up has caused the power outage, it would be difficult to say that it was an act of negligence on the part of the Power Corporation. Therefore, the Power Corporation could not be expected to be liable in that situation. The homeowner should check first with their insurance company to see if they are covered, but I do not believe the Power Corporation carries any insurance to compensate people for natural acts such as the ones we have experienced here.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. There was a recent outage in Fort Resolution where the corporation did establish an office to look at areas where damage had resulted from an extreme over-voltage situation in the community. There was some compensation provided to individuals there and I will have my office develop a comprehensive answer and provide it to the Member, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, technically what happens is the raven becomes a conductor for the electricity to go to ground. That causes a ground fault which, in turn, causes the breakers to trip. If the bird happens to be situated close to the high voltage line and close to a part of the transformer, for instance, that is grounded, the circuit is closed and goes to ground causing the breaker to trip. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

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