• Enforcement of First Nations laws is a problem everywhere; everyone is experiencing the same difficulty (whether self-governing under Treaty or under Indian Act) – everyone is running up to the same hurdle.
  • It takes enforcement institutions like the courts, prosecutors and the police.
  • Enforcement costs money and we are unable to force the police to enforce our laws, unless we go to court, as we did in Thordarson.
  • We need to have the right tools. Under the Indian Act, there are almost no tools, and Land Code tools are not perfect.
  • We are working hard on this issue in the treaty process.