Thank you, Madam Chair. One last comment I'd like to make is that I have a letter sent to me from the Town of Norman Wells dated March 25th indicating that they would like to see the support for the request put by this department in regard to additional resources to carry out property assessments in that community. Saying that in the same breath there that I think this department could look at doing some educational work with our people in the Sahtu region in regard to our property assessments. As much as we let our people know, as much as the communities let our people know, people still have a hard time in determining their property assessments and why they're paying taxes because of the land claims. They're really mixed up; these are good issues and no fault to them that they have these concerns and questions about why they are paying taxes on their own lands. Stuff like that, I think, is just because of the land claims and the nature of the land claims that we could have some workshops in our regions to talk about property assessments and the taxation.
March 2nd, 3rd and 4th we had a regional Sahtu regional leadership meeting in Norman Wells with about 50 participants, and one of the themes that came out was infrastructure in our communities. A lot of issues in this department that Mr. Zoe is responsible for took the lead in gathering this leadership, because of all the things that happen in the Sahtu we just wanted to put the brakes on and say, listen, we have to look at some major issues such as MACA, land claims, oil and gas activity, and we need to slow down because it's been quite busy in the last year in the Sahtu.
I'd like to thank the Minister and his staff for initiating this for us and helping us get it off the ground and we'll continue on reading. Hopefully at the end of the day the people in the community will feel some level of comfort and satisfaction in terms of knowing something about the taxes in terms of their property assessments. That was several of the concerns from my communities. Some of the older people wanted to know why they were paying taxes on their own land, land that they own and all that. Just in terms of communicating that to the people in a way that's understandable to them. Mahsi, Madam Chair.