Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, the Power Subsidy Program has grown over the last number of years and we've had to change it accordingly or come in for higher costs. There have been a number of factors that were involved in that growth, the change in the way the billing was done or the rate riders and so on. I'll have Mr. Voytilla go into that. Before that, though, the Power Subsidy Program is paid to residential customers as well as some of the small business ones, depending on their amount of profit and the size of it. But the vast majority is for residential customers and it is anybody who pays more than the Yellowknife rate. It doesn't matter what type of power you get; if you're above the Yellowknife rate, you'll be subsidized for the first 700 kilowatt hours. But for the detail in some of the changes that have happened and the way the subsidy was put together and why we have some room and not moving up in the five or six areas, I'll have Mr. Voytilla give that detail.
Floyd Roland on Committee Motion 21-15(3): Recommendation To Resolve The Sirius Diamond Receivership Issue, Carried
In the Legislative Assembly on February 15th, 2005. See this statement in context.
Committee Motion 21-15(3): Recommendation To Resolve The Sirius Diamond Receivership Issue, Carried
Item 20: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
February 14th, 2005
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