Report: Move Northern Reserves

The federal government is being urged to work with aboriginal leaders to move residents on remote first nations onto urban reserves.

The recommendations is made in a study for the Frontier Center on Public Policy.

Joseph Quesnel is the author of the report and says aboriginalswho live in urban areas are more prosperous than those living in remote first nations.

Quesnel suggests that many remote first nations, especially those in northern Ontario, are not viable and have resulted in a wide range of social problems.