Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Right now there's a recreational lease management framework, and it applies everywhere in the territory. It seems to be working well. Obviously, it doesn't apply in community boundaries or on land withdrawn for Indigenous land claim negotiations. But in most of the territory you can go out on public land and you can identify a lease, and the department works quite well with you to get one of those leases. And then what happens is you get into the Yellowknife periphery area, and the policy just ceases to exist. There's a land freeze. But as far as I can tell, Mr. Speaker, this isn't actually written down anywhere. What happens is you just have hundreds of people applying for leases and then they kind of sit in a pile, and nothing gets done with them.

And so I'm trying to understand where I could find this and why it exists. Can the Minister explain why there is a land freeze in this Yellowknife periphery area? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.