Appendix B

Subject matters where valid Nisga’a laws will be constitutionally
paramount include:

• Nisga’a “citizenship”;
• Nisga’a government—with capital, wealth and property tax exemptions;
• Nisga’a lands and assets;
• Expropriation;
• Nisga’a fiscal management—including federal and provincial transfer payments;
• “Regulation, licensing and prohibition of businesses, professions, and trades, including the imposition of license fees or other fees…”;
• Culture and Language;
• “Preservation, promotion and development” of Nisga’a language and culture;
• Child and Family Services;
• Adoption;
• Pre-school to Grade 12 education;
• Post-secondary education;
• Structure of Nisga’a health care delivery;
• Nisga’a “healers”—or Nisga’a medical practitioners;
• Nisga’a wildlife entitlements—with licence and fee exemption;
• Nisga’a fishing entitlements—with licence and fee exemption;

Subject matters where Nisga’a
government will have shared
jurisdiction but where federal and
provincial laws will be paramount:

• Direct taxation of Nisga’a citizens*;
• Nisga’a police;
• Administration of justice, including a separate new Nisga’a Court;
• Community corrections;
• Social services
• Environmental assessment;
• Forest resources, including Nisga’a forest practices code and scaling standards;
• Prohibition and terms for sale or possession of intoxicants on Nisga’a lands;
• Right to reject gaming on Nisga’a lands;
• Solemnization of marriages of Nisga’a anywhere in BC;
• Wildlife and migratory management;
• Sale and trade of wildlife, migratory birds, and wildlife parts;
• Fisheries and management;
• Training programs for hunters;
• Public order, peace, and safety;
• Traffic and transportation;
• “Cultural employment standards for Nisga’a workers throughout BC.*

* Paramountcy is not stated.