A Senate committee hearing has heard that the process of converting TLE land to reserves has been slow.
And the Auditor General’s office says that has led to financial hardship for some bands.
Auditor General’s office spokesman Frank Barrett says while bands wait for the conversion to take place, the land can’t be used — so it sits idle, and that hurts the band’s economy.
“You end up with a situation where, in effect, the land is in limbo waiting for it to be converted before it can be used the way the First Nation would like to use it. So, often that has caused some economic hardship.”
An audit report says that happened in Onion Lake.