Thank you, Mr. Chair. I think it's a great news headline that we will charge our existing farmers less every year on their lease rents. I will ask MACA one day to charge them less on their taxes. As part of the business plan, one of the measures is that the department is going to increase the amount of land leased by the GNWT for agricultural purposes by region and location. One of my concerns with this is we don't actually have a database of what land is available for agricultural use. We kind of wait for people to come to us, and they have to explore that list to see whether it's subject to a withdrawal or available for leasing. Can the department go out and identify all of the land that is potentially available for agricultural leasing? I think that getting that information out there would really encourage people, even if it's the existing lessees, to know that they could expand and that there is land available, and we will work with them. Can the department go out and identify that, considering the mandate item says that they will actually measure that amount of land, but I don't believe we know how much we presently have? Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Rylund Johnson on Committee Motion 79-19(2): Tabled Document 286-19(2): Main Estimates 2021-2022 - Lands - Corporate Management - Deletion of $303,000 from Grants, Contributions and Transfers, Defeated
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Committee Motion 79-19(2): Tabled Document 286-19(2): Main Estimates 2021-2022 - Lands - Corporate Management - Deletion of $303,000 from Grants, Contributions and Transfers, Defeated
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