Thank you, Mr. Speaker. It is interesting that the subject of cross-subsidization comes up almost all the time when we discuss the Power Corporation, particularly, when we talk about continuing the corporation as one. It is a legitimate concern. People need to be assured there is no cross-subsidy. I would like to remind all Members this issue was put to bed once and for all last summer when the Public Utilities Board, after five years of painstaking work, came out with a decision, approved rates that ensured there was no subsidy going across the east/west boundaries. Western communities are in no way subsidizing any Nunavut communities. The target over the next few years is to make sure all communities are paying their own cost of power.
In terms of there being a perception of unequal support for the headquarters operation, again, all of the costs and the expenditures of the NWT Power Corporation are examined in excruciating detail by the Public Utilities Board and by a number of lawyers representing all of the intervenors. We have, I am afraid to say, over the last five years killed a large number of trees to make enough paper, when stacked, darn nearly reach the ceiling in this Chamber, Mr. Speaker, to prove that there is a rationale behind the rates and that there is no inequality in the subsidy or the cost of headquarters apportioned to each community. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.