Mr. Speaker, the Cabinet met in early August and it was felt that there was a clear political understanding, an understanding of the Ministers about what that decision was, which was to direct that the Power Corporation defer any further consultation on a range of things, including a single-rate zone. For whatever reason, this was not understood by the Power Corporation and conveyed to them. It was important to get that clear.

We had a meeting two weeks ago. Cabinet reviewed that and we had that clarified and confirmed and simply asked the board to withdraw their application at this time, so that the energy strategy could be completed and the Members of the Legislature could have a debate about the draft Energy Strategy, the public could have a look at it and within that context discuss what is the best way for the Power Corporation to operate, what are the goals and objectives that we have in the strategies that we set out, and then deal with specific issues of single-rate zones. That was the direction we gave in August and it was a decision we thought was clear.

It was brought up again. It was revisited and we asked our board to comply. They chose not to comply so that was the action we took. Thank you.