Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My question today is to the Honourable Kevin Menicoche, Minister responsible for the Pubic Utilities Board, just in relation to the general rate application that the Power Corporation filed with the Public Utilities Board a little while back about the increase of 16 percent or three cents per kilowatt hour for the power rates in Yellowknife and roughly $20 for everybody else in the NWT.
I know that the application is based on the need for immediate rate increases. The process, I know, the general rate application is long and lengthy and could take up to a year to get the application pushed through. Already the rates have gone up, Mr. Speaker, and the Power Corporation has implemented power rate increases already in the $12 and $13 range per NWT resident. It's an interim refundable rate and I am just wondering if the Public Utilities Board has ever refused a general rate application form that's been filed by the Power Corporation in the past. It seems like...