British Columbia: Continuation Of Trial To Determine Validity Of Nisga’a Agreement

British Columbia: Continuation Of Trial To Determine Validity Of Nisga’a Agreement   The Nisga’a Final Agreement legislation was enacted in 2000 establishing a Nisga’a constitution, citizenship, police force, and judiciary.   Assisted in the litigation by the Canadian Constitution Foundation (CCF), James Robinson, a Nisga’a ancestral chief with the hereditary title of Chief Mountain, along with Mercy Thomas and other Nisga’a peoples, are challenging the “third order” of government created by...

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