CBC Manitoba: Man banished from First Nation for 5 years challenges ‘incredibly extreme punishment’

Marc Kruse, director of Indigenous legal learning and services at the University of Manitoba’s Robson Hall law school, says there’s a long history of First Nations using band council resolutions to banish people or check what’s coming into their communities — an authority that stems from the Indian Act.

While First Nations have their own sovereignty and should be able to write their own laws, Kruse says all law in Canada needs to follow the Charter and the Constitution.

“The issue here is, I don’t think they’re following common law or Indigenous law when it comes to exile orders,” he said.

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