Yes, Mr. Speaker, my direction to the Power Corporation has been to conduct thorough consultation in the communities. Those are the people that pay the power bills. If they want to ask questions about any particular rate structure -- and I am sure there are not just two, there are all sorts of options -- that they go to the communities, they hold the discussions and be as thorough as they can, given the time limits that the Public Utilities Board will probably place on them. Thank you.

Mr. Speaker, as a government, we have an obligation to deliver as good, effective and coordinated programs as possible. In this case, we have the energy strategy that will be coming along some time in the future. We have the need for the Power Corporation to go forward with their rate application to set new rates for power. We need to have these coordinated as much as possible. When we talk about public interest, then we are talking about being a good and efficient government that has policies and programs that are coordinated and they are not going off in different directions. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I hope I heard this correctly. I have a question for the Minister responsible for the Power Corporation. Did I understand him to tell Mr. Krutko that he was instructing the Power Corporation to proceed with community consultation on rate structures? Is that what I heard him say? Thank you.

Mr. Speaker, the Power Corporation will be filing an application based on the community by community rate structure, as well as any directives that were not issued when the Public Utilities Board last decided on an application. I think there were several of them. Then the Public Utilities Board process is one that is open to the public by nature. There is opportunity for intervenors. People, when they prepare to intervene or are considering intervening, will want to know more about what does this application really mean. What does it mean to our community? They may have other options that they want to look at. The Power Corporation has the information, and what information they have available will be open to communities to help them to better understand the impact of the community-by-community rate application they put forward. That may mean someone will say, what is the advantage of this over this? I do not know what the question could be, but we have an obligation to do what we can to help the public understand it. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. So then I am to understand that that consultation might include speaking to the communities about the single-rate zone? Thank you.

Mr. Speaker, no, they will not go out there and try to sell communities on a single-rate zone. I will make sure that is clear. If people ask the question, they will provide information, but they are not to go out and file one application and try to sell something else. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, would that then, in the Minister's view, be consistent with the Cabinet decision to defer consultation on the general rate application until such time as the energy strategy has been tabled and considered by this House? Thank you.

Mr. Speaker, if communities ask for information, we have an obligation to provide it. I do not know what form they might ask it in, but they are not, I do not think, just going to accept the application on its own merit. They are going to ask other questions and we have to answer those questions, but we will not go out and try to sell the one-rate zone as a government and I will make it clear to the board of the Power Corporation that they are not to do that either. That clearly would be a contravention of Cabinet direction.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, could the Minister responsible for the Power Corporation give us an idea of the cost of the Robertson report to date, and are there other associated costs? We hear about the energy strategy. Exactly what is the cost to this government by way of the Robertson report to date?

Mr. Speaker, I will have to take that as notice because I would have to total up what the cost has been, particularly if we are going to include the cost of any consultation that has been done up to now. Thank you.

I would just like to ask the Premier, in regard to the energy strategy, it has been some 15 months since it has been implemented. A lot of money has been spent in that area, but we have not even seen a copy of the report or where the report is. It seems like there is a real rush on now to get it dusted up to try to get it into this House. I would like to ask the Minister, how soon will that report be ready for this House? Will you be holding off on all initiatives regarding energy or power reviews until that report is tabled?