Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I am going to take my first opportunity to wade into this Power Corporation issue, as yesterday I spoke on a different issue. Mr. Speaker, a few of the Members in this House still feel that it is an important issue to try to get some clarity to and to let the people of the Northwest Territories understand the process and why things happened.

We heard in this House after a number of questions about dates and times, and why things had changed, and there seemed to be a clear understanding by some members of Cabinet that a clear directive was issued, yet on the other side there seems to be an ambiguous decision that was made that was unclear. In fact, I have spoken with the individual from Inuvik that used to be the representative on the Power Corporation board and know that, in fact, they did not feel that there was a clear decision made. Now that is up for debate here.

Some Members will say that there was and there was not, but what we need to do is get to the bottom of it, Mr. Speaker. Get to the bottom of the issue, an issue where we have seen again coming at the eleventh hour, at the last minute, and pulling the carpet out from under a board that was mandated by this government following its legislation and following the rules of its legislation. It was not operating outside of it. It was operating within.

This is the third occasion that this government has stepped in and saw fit to remove the authority of the board of the time and make a decision that went beyond what was happening.

The board followed direction and followed the Act. In the case of the franchise agreement, they were told to remove from Hay River. They were told to halt procedures of a reorganization that would have seen savings to the Power Corporation. They were told to halt that at the eleventh hour.

Mr. Speaker, it seems that the eleventh hour again, we were told -- and I heard from the news, I was given a call by CBC North to ask my opinion about what happened. I just happened to be reading the transcripts on my computer and had heard nothing of it before that.

We need to get to the bottom of this, why decisions were made and why they were done in such an erratic manner. I will have questions for the Premier at a later time. Thank you.

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