Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, from the petroleum products division itself we

are not providing any subsidies to individuals out there. There are a number of other programs within other departments that do help out people in the North. One is the seniors' fuel subsidy; another, through income support, possibly, would be a hardship allowance. Again, that is income tested.

What we have done in the petroleum products division is to try to offset the increased cost of home heating oil. Within our stabilization fund, there was enough funding there to lower the price or keep the price from going up further by 10 cents a litre on home heating oil. That is one of the things that we have done, is taken some of that subsidy to lower what the impact would have been had we not applied that 10 cent reduction to home heating oil. Thank you.