Martin Shields at the Indigenous and Northern Affairs Committee

I think for economic development, it's one of the barriers out there. We as individuals, under our structure, can get mortgages. We can borrow and we can get that. It has been an economic barrier, in a sense, for indigenous people that this barrier has been there, because they haven't been able to have title, fee simple, to gain actual property.

I think this is something that you're suggesting is now beginning to happen.