Yes, they are complex. The timelines are unacceptable at times, even in the simpler cases. The approach I've tried to take as a minister is “as quickly as possible”, with the frustrating realization that it can't come to fruition in a lot of cases.
In the ATR process there are some third party interests that we need to clear and satisfy before that process is complete.
The process of ATR is complicated even further by the fact that it falls within Minister Hajdu's and my authority jointly, but at the end of the day the conclusion is that it has been too slow and it needs to go more quickly, and we need to be a little more innovative as to how we add land back to reserves. It's very frustrating for communities, even if it's a couple of acres in some cases, but even in the simplest of cases it should be much faster.
There are more monies allocated internally—a few million dollars—to hasten that, but as we exit from COVID and as people actually go back to work and the in-person paper documentation that was essential to getting this done faster can be done a little more effectively, I hope to see that go more quickly.