Thank you very much, Chair.
Thank you to our witnesses for being here.
A lot of the concern we hear when we meet with indigenous leaders who come to Ottawa and talk about the footprint of their nation, whether they buy land or to go through the ATR process, is that it's very cumbersome and time-consuming. There are no tight guidelines on when a decision can be expected. These are the kinds of comments we hear all the time.
You outlined in your opening remarks a few things your department is doing to speed up some of the applications that are going through, but I think it is still a problem within the department itself.
I want to relay the concerns we are getting on this side from nations themselves. I don't know whether you want to respond to that before I go on to my line of questioning, but I want you to know that it is a concern we hear quite often.