Thank you for that. Yeah, I mean, obviously it's difficult. Land is -- you know, in the smaller communities, and specifically in the coastal communities, you know, there's not a lot of lots there, and as we're aware of, the Indigenous governments, certainly in my region, have received a significant amount of funding to put housing in these communities, as well as the larger centres of course, but in the smaller communities as well. So it's so important that they get as streamlined as possible working with the department to ensure that they can get -- acquire some of that land that obviously is next to their borders, I guess, the communities that they're trying to develop in.
The deputy minister mentioned some of the surveying. And I know kind of to switch over to bulk land transfer as well, which I know other colleagues here, I'm sure, will speak to, but, you know, given the municipalities and the interest, again, around getting the bulk land transfer done -- and it's not the first time we've discussed that. We're talked about the administrative burden, I guess, and the cost of land surveys which, you know, for smaller hamlets and municipalities would become significant, and I'm wondering what -- you know, is there more -- you know, are we seeing enough concentrated effort, I guess, or concrete efforts to transfer the lands to municipalities so that they can use that land. So kind of what's the department doing to kind of ease that burden on them a little, maybe look at doing, whether that's drone surveys or doing a -- you know, a survey of, you know, all the land at once rather than trying to parcel it out to make it a little less expensive, and is the department willing to work with the municipalities to ensure that they get, again, this important land transfer over so they can use it for economic development, for building homes, for whatever the case may be, but certainly give it to the people that know best what to do with it. So thank you, Madam Chair.