Thank you, Mr. Chairman. A concern I have is with the Financial Management Board Secretariat taking on programs and services functions rather than being a financial management board to oversee what goes on with the government, especially with hydro initiatives and the $1 million for hydroelectric potential.

I have a hard time understanding where does the Northwest Territories Power Corporation, which has the responsibility for distributing power in our communities, and being a Crown corporation of which this government is a shareholder...we have seen other initiatives, especially with the Executive, Maximizing Northern Employment. I would like to know, why has this responsibility not gone to, say, another department responsible for energy or looking at the responsibility of non-renewable energy by way of the Department of Resources, Wildlife and Economic Development, the Power Corporation, some other department? Why specifically this department?

My concern is that the responsibility of the Financial Management Board Secretariat is to ensure the accountability of government is there, that we look at the revenues and what is coming into government and that we oversee that we are reaching the potential we have by way of those responsibilities.

For us to start taking on programs and services roles, that should be left with the departments responsible for carrying out programs and services. I would like to ask the Minister, why is it that this department is now in the business of looking at programs and services?