Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My colleagues on this side, one spoke for it and the rest against. The reasons, the excuses they use was the subsidy. Well, I think the subsidy was something that some politician put in there because they felt so guilty about what they were doing to the smaller communities. They're trying to bring the smaller communities up to a certain little level because of their guilt, and because of that they put the subsidy in. It doesn't even meet at a certain level at all.
We have people in the South Slave paying $60 a month for their power, while you have people in Colville Lake paying $400 or $500 a month. Is that fair? Does the subsidy bring them up? No. If it wasn't for the subsidy it would be maybe $1000, but, hey, because they felt guilty, we'll give them a little subsidy, they'll feel better now, but they're still going to have to pay the cost. So that's what the subsidy is all about. It's just some guilty trip from former politicians. That's all it was there for.
Talking about a subsidy. If I had put a motion here in the House saying well, from today on the study will be based on Fort Smith rates, I'm sure everybody on this side of the House would have jumped on the bandwagon and talked on the motion for the motion. I'm sure they would have. Even that side would have.