On January 10, 2007, before this interim refundable rate rider was effective, the Power Corporation's fuel rider and the rider T was approved by the Public Utilities Board. So we have the fuel rider and the rider T approved by the Public Utilities Board. Now we have an interim refundable rate rider. I don't understand what the differences are and what effects it will have for people on hydro on diesel. Could the Minister explain that to me? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Villeneuve. Mr. Menicoche.

Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. That's a level of detail that I don't have right now. There were not two riders in that application that was brought before the Public Utilities Board. It must have been a separate application for the T rider. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Menicoche. Supplementary, Mr. Villeneuve.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The information I have, okay, we have the approval of the fuel rider and the rider T for the consumers that are on hydro, and now we have an approval of this interim refundable rate rider. Is the Public Utilities Board, or is the Minister responsible for the Public Utilities Board, going to be putting out any kind of a public notice that will explain to myself, my constituents and the people of the NWT, what the effects are of this fuel rider? The rider T is pretty cut and dried, but explain what is this interim refundable rate rider going to be and what the changes are going to be to people's power bills. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Villeneuve. Mr. Menicoche.

Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. There are a couple of zones that we do speak of when there's a general rate application; one's hydro communities and one's the diesel communities. The general rate application process is usually explained by the proponent which is, in this case, the NWT Power Corporation. I can commit to getting more information on this matter to explain to the Member and the public consultation process, and I'll get that back to the Member, Mr. Speaker. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Menicoche. Final supplementary, Mr. Villeneuve.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I thank the Minister for making that commitment, I guess, just for the public interest. I would maybe want to ask the Minister for a commitment that either the Public Utilities Board or the NWT Power Corp or his department, whoever, because we're already into one month here that this has been approved; it's been approved effective February 1, 2007, and I don't think people even really know what it is that has been approved. Just for the public's interest and how it's going to affect their power bills, I would like to see something maybe in Monday's paper, perhaps, you know, a full-pager on how, explaining what these rate riders are, what this interim refundable rate rider is and how it's going to affect everybody's power rates. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Villeneuve. Mr. Menicoche.

Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. I don't think we can be publishing a full-page ad, but I can, once again, commit to getting more information out to the public if it's with the Public Utilities board; or else I can contact the NWT Power Corporation, the Minister responsible, and see if we need more consultation or more advertising of this process for the rates, Mr. Speaker. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Menicoche. Oral questions. The honourable Member for Inuvik Twin Lakes, Mr. McLeod.

Thank you, Mr. McLeod. The honourable Minister responsible for Municipal and Community Affairs, Mr. McLeod.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The whole concept behind forming the NWT Sports and Recreation Council was to try to pull all the organizations under one roof and to set up a funding program that would give everybody a fair share of the dollars as they delivered their own programs. It was also a cost-cutting measure so that the organizations would start to share some of the administration, cut down on the administrative costs and be able to put more dollars towards programming. Mr. Speaker, this has been working quite well. All the organizations are operating under one roof. We plan to put our sports division, sports and youth division, in the same facility so that everybody can have close contact. It would also help improve our delivery of programs, Mr. Speaker. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. McLeod. Supplementary, Mr. Robert McLeod.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I understand Sport North has a board of directors made up of members of some of the territorial sports organizations. Now we have a new sports governing council. I'd like to ask the Minister, what is it that this new governance council will do that Sport North couldn't do? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. McLeod. Mr. Michael McLeod.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, we are expecting the new Sports and Recreation Council to ensure that all communities have a voice in the decision-making. It was, for the most part, from the smaller communities and from communities that didn't have TSOs raising concerns over many years that they didn't have a mechanism for them to talk about sports and recreation. This has changed now and we're also expecting the Sports and Recreation Council, through this whole system, to streamline decision-making and also to streamline program delivery. We would expect, now that everybody's working off the same page, that we'll see more effective use of resources and we reduce money spent on administration. Again, that would result on more money being spent on programs. I guess the bottom line is that this would ensure that the resources that are out there for sports and recreation are spread across the board in a fair and equitable manner that all communities and regions can benefit. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. McLeod. Supplementary, Mr. Robert McLeod.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I know a lot of people who work in the sporting field and they're all hard workers, but again it seems to me there's a lot of sport governing bodies. I'd like to ask the Minister, with the formation of the new Sports and Recreation Council will the other governance groups be dissolved and amalgamated into this one big sports council? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. McLeod. Mr. Michael McLeod.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. We're not in a position to tell anybody to dissolve or force them to dissolve. We've assured all organizations that they will continue running as they are currently operating. We have set up a board now with the sports council that everybody has a voice, everybody can share in the discussion. There's a methodology of everybody coming together. We're hoping that at some point some of the organizations are going to recognize that there is some merit to working under one roof, one umbrella structure. We're not quite at that stage yet; however, some of that discussion with some of the organizations has already taken place and we're hoping that will continue. As people become more comfortable working with the Territorial Sports and Recreation Council, I'm sure that we're going to arrive at that point later down the road. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. McLeod. Final supplementary, Mr. Robert McLeod.