I can't speak to the process to recognize a nation, but once a nation is recognized, it's a proposal-driven process to access and add land to its reserve base. Some of the interim changes that were made make that easier for landless bands.
There is funding available. In 2021, there was funding set aside specifically to try to expedite the creation of additions to reserve funding. A lot of that went to supporting regional people to be able to work directly with nations to be able to advance those projects. We've also set aside money for nations to do things like surveys, environmental site assessments and all the things you need to do to bring land into reserve status.
