Thank you, Mr. Speaker. In order to try to clarify this, I will not be laconic in my reply. I want to go back a bit. The Power Corporation and the government were working on the recommendations in the Robertson report going right back to October 2001.

In June, yes, the Power Corporation and ourselves were looking at a one-rate zone and we were trying to see how it would work. In August, on August 6th, the Cabinet met and Cabinet agreed on some strategic direction to the Power Corporation. It also agreed that the government would not continue with public consultation on the Robertson report. The Robertson report included a whole bunch of recommendations, including comment on the one-rate zone.

The chairman of the Power Corporation got a copy of the record of decision. He would have gotten that sometime late the following week. Takes about a week or so to get those out. He gets the actual wording of it. He would have seen it. He, for whatever the reasons were in his interpretation, did not read that to mean that the Power Corporation should cease the direction they were going.

Then we went off to T'loondih and I went on the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association meetings, I was not back in Yellowknife until sometime in mid-September. Meanwhile, there were no questions asked of me and I do not make copies of the records of decisions or interpret them for people. They are, in this case, it was sent out just as it was worded. It came back in the middle of September.

We were busy with business plans, nothing was brought to my attention. In the meantime, the chairman of the Power Corporation did advise me that they filed a report or an application on September 6th. I did not read the application. It went ahead.

On October 3rd, there were questions about the interpretation and what they were doing. We had a Cabinet meeting and that was reviewed at that time. I think you have the rest of the picture from there on.

I do not think there was anything mischievous in this or anything negligent or anything else. When you follow through, it all happened and there was a delay because I was out of the country. No one raised the question with me and that is the whole story to it, Mr. Speaker. Thank you.