I'll be candid and say that I have not had much dialogue with landless bands around economic development. My team does the additions to reserve process. Another part of the lands and environmental sector deals with economic development. I would not want to speak on their behalf.
I can say that the two programs that deliver economic development support are not residency-based. Landless bands would be eligible for economic development funding under those programs. The challenge is that they may not have a place to do economic development that would be tax-free or under their own governance and administration. That would be a question I'd want to take back to the economic development folks.
