Like Campbell v. British Columbia (2000), this case involved a challenge to the constitutional validity of the self-government provisions in the Nisga'a Final Agreement (2000). The trial judge followed Campbell out of comity, acknowledging that the Nisga'a Nation has an inherent right of self-government that is defined by the Agreement, but also decided that these provisions could be upheld as constitutionally-valid delegated authority. The BC Court of Appeal found that the governance provisions are valid as delegated authority without addressing the inherent right issue.