Thank you, Mr. Chair. This is one that we’ve had some struggles with in the last couple years. It’s also one that we’ve actually made some progress on. We’ve worked with some of the communities that are sitting on IAB lands and we’ve had some band council resolutions and it’s kind of complicated. I mean, we’re working on one right now that’s been going on for awhile. The community group has agreed to a request. We’ve brought the situation forward to Ottawa and we’re still waiting to hear back from Ottawa on our request. So on IAB lands, because land tenures are an important part of our programs and they need to have land tenure, we’ll take a BCR if they can provide their beneficiary with a lease. Because there’s sometimes where they give them leases for 99 years. If they can provide that, then that would allow us to enter into a program with the tenant.
We’ve got a couple of instances where we’ve put infrastructure on IAB land and then now we’re trying to sort out the one particular issue that I’d
mentioned to the Member. We’re trying to sort that out now. We needed to use that infrastructure money that we got from Canada. The community actually did their part and Housing did their part. So we had an agreement, we put the infrastructure in. We’re still waiting on the federal government. I think we’ve corresponded with him once or twice on this particular issue, because they need to get this resolved because those units have been sitting in that community for almost six years now.
So it is a bit of a challenge and it’s one that we’re going to have to try and work our way through if we want to work with some of the IAB land. Because if you look at it, it kind of makes it harder for the beneficiaries in that particular community to access any of our programs without access to land. Thank you.