Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I too would like to continue the debate regarding the firing of the board of directors of the NWT Power Corporation.

Mr. Speaker, we have a protocol in regard to how we deal with staff of this government. We have protocol with regard to how we deal with the unions that take care of the employees of the Government of the Northwest Territories. We have policies, procedures, there are certain steps that we take to ensure that due process is followed before we evict or exclude a person's position from this government.

Mr. Speaker, what I find cumbersome is exactly the time it took from this government, knowing that a decision was made to move on different initiatives, such as the application that was filed with the Public Utilities Board back in August, and then hearing the government say "Well, we informed the board that we wanted them to halt all procedures by way of a letter or a directive that came from this government."

The thing that gets me, Mr. Speaker, is who is telling the truth here? You talk to someone who is a director of the corporation, and they state clearly that a letter was received with no relevance or statement to a one-rate zone in the letter. So on one hand, we heard the Premier, through a statement in the House, that clear direction was given to the board back in August to withdraw the application on the one-rate zone. So unless we have access to the letter that the Premier is talking about and how the direction decision was made, we cannot violate or get clear direction on exactly what was stated and what was in that letter, unless it means that we can do it through offering the director the ability to table that letter in this House so we can all get a copy of it.

Mr. Speaker, I for one find it awfully hard to understand how we have one Minister supporting the one-rate zone, who still publicly states that he supports it, and a Premier who evicted a board of directors, whose credibility has been tarnished, and whose individual rights as Northerners...we know these individuals personally.