Mr. Speaker, the concern I have is the quickness of Cabinet to interfere in a board process, and overseeing the Power Corporation of the Northwest Territories.

Mr. Speaker, there are three circumstances where Cabinet has directives. One was dealing with the Hay River franchise issue, which we heard a lot about. That was where the Robertson report idea came from. The second was regarding the idea of trying to look at saving dollars for the people of the Northwest Territories who are the shareholders of this corporation by consideration of layoffs in the corporation to save us a million dollars. There again, Cabinet intervened. The third time is dealing with the issue that is at hand today, regarding the application that was put forth in regard to the one-rate zone.

Mr. Speaker, in those three incidents, Cabinet directives were given. I would like to ask Mr. Handley, as the Minister responsible for the Power Corporation, were those directives given to you as the Minister to carry them out, and how did you carry that out?