A group of opponents within the Kwantlen First Nation are escalating their four-year fight to fire Chief Marilyn Gabriel
The Chief of a tiny Fraser Valley First Nation is refusing to leave the job her father appointed her to 30 years ago, saying the band’s oral laws mean she is its legitimate leader.
On Thursday, the hereditary council – Ms. Gabriel and the two councillors that she appointed in 1994 – filed an application for a judicial review in Federal Court that would declare the breakaway councillors to have no authority and to force its three members and two organizers to immediately stop representing themselves as leaders of the Kwantlen First Nation.
Asked why her council has never held elections, Ms. Knott, a practising lawyer, said the Kwantlen First Nation is maintaining its precontact Indigenous traditions of hereditary leadership.The Federal Court application states that the council retained a consultancy in 2019 to survey the nation, but participation was “relatively low, and significantly less than a majority of adult Kwantlen members participated in the surveys.
Mr. Jago said there are only 214 adult members of the Kwantlen, with more than half of these people “completely disconnected” from life on the reserves, the largest of which is 191-hectare McMillan Island on the Fraser River.
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