I believe there was a commitment that this work was going to be done in the life of this Assembly. I am very happy to hear that. The issue right now is that we don't issue residential leases outside of municipal boundaries. You can only get a residential lease beside a commercial lease within the municipal boundaries, which is not where most of the farmland is. I think even larger to this issue is that much of our land is tied up in withdrawals or disputes, and it's very unclear. A lot of the history of what land is potentially farmable in the NWT has been lost.

My question is: has the Department of Lands done any surveying or identifying of potential arable land in the Northwest Territories? I know that many jurisdictions have vast agricultural land protections in place to make sure that that land is identified and prioritized for farming. Has the department identified potential farmland in the Northwest Territories?