It's a good question. Again, I don't want to speak on behalf of all first nations across the country, because our realities are very different and there is leadership within those regions who will speak to what they need.
In Quebec most certainly we are seeing that land is at a premium. With growing demographics and small communities, meeting housing needs is going to be a challenge. The only current way to increase the size of our communities is the additions-to-reserves process. Again, it's been reworked and improved. I think the work is still ongoing on this policy, so we need to find a different mousetrap.
Additions to reserve will work in certain circumstances. Many first nations across this country are treaty first nations, so the land they require, I'm assuming, would be part of those discussions under treaty rights and treaty land entitlement. In Quebec, given that most nations have unceded territories, I think there is an opportunity we can expand and increase the size of our communities by sitting down and having discussions with Crown-Indigenous Relations about recognizing our rights and title, rather than going through a comprehensive claims process, a specific claims process or the additions to reserve.
We believe that is a viable opportunity, but again, it takes political will. There is a third player that has to come into this discussion, and that's the province, which will not get involved in most instances. What they like to do when we talk about housing needs, particularly of our urban members, is to just simply shrug it off and say that it's a federal responsibility.
Again, there are opportunities to expand our land bases, working in collaboration with the province and the federal government, and to quit being dependent on additions to reserve and these other processes that are complex, take time and have a huge host of challenges.