First Nations tell committee, feds to blame for slowing ‘additions to reserve’ land process – APTN News
Feb 03, 2026
Linda Robinson says her First Nation has been waiting more than two centuries for land.
“This is not a new issue,” the chief of the Wolf Lake First Nation told a Parliamentary committee in Ottawa on Tuesday. “Algonquin chiefs have petitioned the Crown for land for more than two hundred years. Canada has been on notice for two centuries. What has changed is not the legitimacy of our request but how long Canada expects us to wait. This situation is not the result of legal uncertainty. It is the result of administrative choice.”
Robinson was part of a group of landless First Nations that presented before the Standing Committee on Indigenous and Northern Affairs.
