A Court of King’s Bench judge has ruled a blockade set up outside Bloodvein First Nation to keep drugs and alcohol out will be allowed to remain despite inconveniencing licensed hunters.
Justice Theodor Bock said the checkstop, which the First Nation installed to prevent contraband from getting into the community, is independent from a judicial review of a hunting buffer zone the province established in September.
“If the checkstop is used to prevent licensed moose hunters from accessing those portions (of land), those hunters will be inconvenienced… but not wholly prevented from moose hunting,” Bock said in his oral decision.