Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Our job in this House is to get answers for our constituents and then, sometimes, when the same question is being asked over and over again, it's to get a department to move to actually solve an underlying issue. I would like to give a brief history of the Ingraham Trail and some of the answers I would like to leave this House from the Department of Lands.

Firstly, a history of land title. In the early 1960s and 1970s, anyone who went up to the trail, and in many parts of the NWT, and surveyed a piece of land could get that land in fee simple. This is one of the holdovers we have from the federal government. Additionally, in the Cassidy Point area, we handed out a number of equity leases. I believe 41 were given out in that area to provide people with title, and the department has another 180 to go. I have constituents all the time who have their neighbours who have title, and they ask: when can I get title? Despite numerous promises from different departmental officials over decades, they still don't have an answer to that question. I would like to leave this House with an answer to that question, Mr. Speaker.

I recently tried to figure out where the school board taxes go for residents on the Ingraham Trail. This took me through a journey to the Department of MACA, the Department of Finance, and the Department of Lands, and I am still unclear whether those taxes actually end up in a specific school board or whether they are just lost in general revenue. I would like to leave this House with an answer to that question.

Mr. Speaker, my constituents on the trail grow frustrated with how their properties are assessed. Some are a holdover of devolution, which have a different tax rate and a different assessment value. Some are recreational leases with yet another, different tax rate. I would like to have coherence to the taxing system to provide my constituents with an answer for why things are the way they are, before I leave this House.

Lastly, many people live on the Ingraham Trail in violation of their leases. They live in recreational leases that do not allow them to live full-time in those houses. They do not allow them to work from home, something that has been extremely difficult during COVID. The Department of Lands knows this. It acknowledges it, yet it never does anything about it. It never provides an option to convert to residential leases. I would like to give an answer to my constituents about that. I will have questions for the Minister of Lands about when I can get these answers. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.