Thank you, Mr. Chair. In examining this issue, we attempted to rationalize the two systems of Commissioner's land and territorial land and they both had different current minimums, and our proposed minimums, as is known, is $840. Now, my understanding is that these rates had not been changed or altered in any way for 20 or 30 years perhaps, so to some degree we are just catching up with inflation and we feel that this was a rational compromise in many ways because, if you looked at it even from the point of view of inflation, the increase probably would have even been more.

There were some initial discussions that perhaps a larger amount would be more applicable, so after an evaluation, though, of the concerns that I have heard from the Members what we did was that we selected an amount that we felt was reasonable. I do not think the amounts proposed would amount to sticker shock, if I can put it that way. Thank you, Mr. Chair.