Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I must say that the Member for North Slave definitely continues to work for his constituents in pushing this forward. Mr. Speaker, it was quite a controversy when the issue of a one-rate zone came through and now we see it being brought forward again by a motion.

Mr. Speaker, unfortunately at this time, I am going to have to speak not in support of this motion. I think that, number one, what we need to do as an Assembly, as Members of a government or the next government, we should be directing to have that discussion amongst Members, not send the staff out to do something just to be quashed again by somebody else when the political pressure is put on. Instead, as a government we need to decide if we are going to change the structure, then at that point, we can send the people out to do the work that we have decided politically.

When we decide or do it the way it was done before, there is always room for politics to kick in and to turn things around but, Mr. Speaker, in this motion, when we look at it, I have the same concerns that the rate zone in Inuvik is higher than it is in Yellowknife. But, Mr. Speaker, one thing we have as a government that we have continued to support is the subsidy program that has every resident of the Northwest Territories subsidized at the Yellowknife rate of the first 700 kilowatt hours.

Mr. Speaker, as a family man who has a large family, for the majority of months during the year, through the diligence of my wife, I manage to keep our household power rates down to take advantage of that. There are a couple of months a year that we go over slightly. Usually at Christmastime, Mr. Speaker, is one of the times. Mr. Speaker, I think instead of sending out the staff and the Power Corporation or directing the Public Utilities Board to do some more work on behalf of a rate structure, I think as leaders of the government and knowing that we are in the twilight hours of this Assembly, that instead we should be directing the next government to have that political discussion to decide if in fact that is the best way to go for our Power Corporation. I say ours, Mr. Speaker, because it does belong to all of the Northwest Territories and we have to decide if one flat-rate zone or two zones are the better way to go, but I think this is not an appropriate tool to be doing that at this late juncture. So, I will not be supporting the motion. Thank you.