Settling claims

While this article criticizes Manitoba more than it praises Saskatchewan, let's note that Saskatchewan has at least managed a good start to getting land claims dealt with:

The Southern Chiefs Organization in Manitoba is calling on the federal and provincial government to help First Nations get the land they are owed.

The province owes more than 400,000 hectares (1 million acres) of land to 27 First Nations, but less than 2,500 hectares of land has been converted to reserve land so far.

The Southern Chiefs issued a report Tuesday comparing Manitoba's track record on settling treaty land entitlements (TLEs) with Saskatchewan's record. Saskatchewan, the report says, is "much more efficient" at settling claims, noting that more than half First Nations with treaty entitlements in that province have obtained the land owed to them.

Obviously there's a good ways to go in Saskatchewan as well. But Calvert and company are headed in the right direction.