What is the difference between a municipality and an administrative tribunal?

31 First, in contrast to administrative tribunals, that usually adjudicate matters pertaining to a specialized and confined area, municipalities exercise a rather plenary set of legislative and executive powers, a role that closely mimics that of the provincial government from which they derive their existence. Yet, unlike provincial governments, municipalities do not have an independent constitutional status. (See Godbout v. Longueuil (City), 1997 CanLII 335 (SCC), [1997] 3 S.C.R. 844, at para. 52, and the Constitution Act, 1867, ss. 92(8) and 92(16).) While administrative agencies are equally statutory delegates, they are not a substitute for provincial legislative and executive authority to the extent that municipalities are. Municipalities essentially represent delegated government.