Mr. Speaker, I move, seconded by the honourable Member for Tu Nedhe, that Bill 27, An Act to Amend the Land Titles Act, be read for the second time. This bill makes a number of additions to the Land Titles Act to facilitate the transfer of leases and third-party interests, which are recorded on the records for the Minister administering territorial lands into the land titles system, in particular in respect of lands which must be conveyed to the municipalities under the Nunavut land claims agreement. Certain documents will be exempted from the usual rules applying to the execution of documents, the registrar may accept certain leases, together with amendments and assignments of the lease, which do not comply with the act at present and the Minister administering the lands will be authorized to submit other documents as caveats. The bill also amend the act to: -update the provisions pertaining to the registrar's record-keeping obligations to take into account technological advances; -make it clear that a transferee of any interest shown on a certificate of title is entitled to rely upon the memorandum of the interest of the transferor on the title; -provide a mechanism to give effect for the vesting of ownership by statute; -permit the registration of transfers of caveats -permit an owner to surrender a duplicate certificate of a title for cancellation, or request that one be issued where previously it had been requested that one not be issued; -provide that an owner may transfer an easement to himself or herself and that an easement is not extinguished where a person becomes the owner of an easement and the land over which the easement runs; -provide for the replacement of metes and bounds descriptions by a survey and for authority to give effect to plans of survey registered under the former federal act. Thank you.