Members of a Saskatchewan First Nation have voted in favour of a trespass law that could be used to banish anyone posing a risk to the community.
About 80 per cent of those who voted in a referendum by the Muskoday First Nation, southeast of Prince Albert, supported the proposal.
It must now be ratified by the chief and council.
Muskoday's trespass law would give ban officials a legally binding document to use in a court of law.
Chief Austin Bear has already said band leadership would not use the law to start a witch hunt.
Legal officials have said the law would have to be applied on a case-by-case basis.
Oliver Cameron, the referendum's returning officer, said he believes the community needs a trespass law.
"Muskoday, because they're kind of leading the way on this, they're trying to do away with the drug problem in their own way. If they can do it, all the better," Cameron said.
(CKBI)
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