Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the corporation is, in fact, a very lean operation. It has over the years since this government has taken over made itself even more efficient. Again, the Public Utilities Board acts as a proxy for competition and represents the interests of the public to guarantee that all of the operations of the corporation are examined in detail to ensure there are no extra employees, that the costs of headquarters are not being driven up by added payrolls. That, in fact, is what guarantee the members of the public that the corporation is run efficiently. I would say that this issue is a red herring and I would say to the public that I am confident this is an extremely efficiently run corporation and is not one that has room to cut its operations and absorb a smaller size, if you will, without any increase. In fact, I have commissioned three different accounting firms to examine those figures and not one of them came back at less than a five percent increase across the west to support our own
headquarters if the corporation is forced divided. Just so that Members know from the Nunavut side, the numbers, depending upon which of the accounting firms we used, ranged between seven and just over nine percent. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.