Editing Terra nullius (section)

==== Canada ====
{{See|Numbered treaties|Genocide of Indigenous peoples of Canada}}
[[Joseph Trutch]], the first [[Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia]], insisted that [[First Nations in Canada|First Nations]] had never owned land, and thus their land claims could safely be ignored. It is for this reason that most of [[British Columbia]] remains [[unceded land]].<ref name=Miller-2003-10-sht-comm>{{cite conference |first=Bruce Granville |last=Miller |date=October 2003 |title=A short commentary on land claims in BC |conference=11th Annual National Land Claims Workshop |publisher=Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs |url=https://www.ubcic.bc.ca/a_short_commentary_on_land_claims_in_bc |access-date=7 January 2021}}</ref>

In ''[[R. v. Guerin|Guerin v. The Queen]]'', a [[Supreme Court of Canada|Canadian Supreme Court]] decision of 1984 on aboriginal rights, the Court stated that the government has a [[Fiduciary|fiduciary duty]] toward the First Nations of Canada and established aboriginal title to be a ''[[sui generis]]'' right. Since then there has been a more complicated debate and a general narrowing of the definition of "fiduciary duty".{{citation needed|date=July 2021}}