Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, I am going to speak about the lease costs here. Lease cost to the people in the communities. Currently the lease costs are very high. I indicated that in my questions to the Minister earlier about the cost of the lease being two to four months' salary for individuals and that. Of course as a committee, we are opposing the quick implementation of the increases to the land leases, land rent, land taxes, whatever, and what we are proposing is phased-in increases. I am totally against increases because they are too high as it is. I mean some are not that high and the Minister talked a little about the difference between, I think, Crown and Commissioner's land, or whatever status the land has, but one status for sure is 10 per cent of the value.

So I equated that to saying it is kind of like a 10 per cent mill rate. So I would like to ask the Minister if this department could look to re-examine their decision to increase the rates of leases, which is already reasonably high, in my opinion. Thank you, Mr. Chair.