Sorry, I’m laughing, Mr. Minister, because you say it’s going to take a little more time. Everything seems to take a little more time.
You said the end of this year and I hope you meant not calendar year but fiscal year, then I heard the word spring, so the Minister is nodding. That is the spring of 2013. Thanks for that confirmation.
I guess I’m a little frustrated with the fact that I don’t see, hear or get a sense that we have a long-term plan for our hydro. To get ourselves off of diesel, we’re going to have to get ourselves onto hydro. I’m talking about not just communities in and around Yellowknife and south of the Lake, but we need to be talking about hydro for the communities that are north of us here.
If we’re going to see that in the spring, if this Energy Plan and Hydro Plan are going to be presented to us in the spring, that’s great. I’d like to know from the Minister, what time frame is this plan going to cover. Are we talking one or two years? That is kind of what I’ve seen from my time here.
I feel that we need a plan that’s going to span not just a couple of years, but 10 or 20 years if it’s going to actually get us someplace. The reason why I say that is because there are huge costs associated with adding hydro initiatives, transmission line costs and generating hydro costs money as well. We need to plan for those huge expenses and we have a few other ones already on the books. What kind of time frame is it for the plan? That is about the basis of my question. Thanks.