Thank you very much for the question.
The long story short is that it's long and cumbersome and there are many first nations without reserve or without reserve creation. The work we're doing at CIRNAC is on policy renewal and looking at how we can make the policy more efficient and faster for first nations, but we can't do anything without hearing from those involved.
A lot of consultation work was performed over the last few years. We had a total of 180 first nation-led and Canada-led engagement activities. We generated 930 recommendations from those consultations on how to redesign the policy. As you can imagine, trying to put all of those recommendations together and meet everybody's needs is a little bit difficult.
We have this technical advisory committee that provides technical advice and perspectives to support the development of policy options, so as we're going through the process of revising the policy and directives and guidelines, we're working with them to make sure they address not all of the 930 recommendations but to try to consolidate the bigger themes there to get things moving faster and more efficiently.
One of the other things we're looking at in general is the use of artificial intelligence and digital transformation tools. We talked about communication and service standards. That would be a great way for us to get back to communities in a more timely manner versus some of the manual processes that we currently have in the departments we operate in.