Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We have identified four key strategy areas within the lands administration area that we feel will help achieve a goal of an efficient land administration system. Those four areas of strategies are turning residential leases into title to promote home ownership and reduce the administrative burden. Right now, leases have to be renewed every five years and things like that. Once it is done in title, the only time it is transacted is when the land is bought and sold. That is one area.

The second area of strategy is to transfer more lands to government ownership or government control -- community governments, excuse me.

The third area is to have transferring of federal lands within community boundaries to the GNWT, or return the implementation to DIAND. We have had an arrangement for 15 years -- as far as I know, if not longer -- whereby the department was providing DIAND with administrative services of their lands inside communities, but we were doing it for no cost. I think we need to either recoup something for the work we are doing or let them administer their own lands. That is something we need to discuss at length with the federal government and with DIAND locally as well.

The fourth area, as you mentioned, is the whole area of sound administrative practice, which is cleaning up billing, just by reducing the number of leases you have. If you take all of the residential leases and over time they become title, it reduces your administrative responsibility and reduces the paper flow. We are working on those four key strategy areas, and work continues on those. Not just within Municipal and Community Affairs, but with the other departments involved, for instance, the Housing Corporation as it relates to residential leases. They have many of the homes in the small communities and other communities may be involved with the Housing Corporation or their programs.