Genocide of Indigenous Canadians.

This article reports the litigation of a New Brunswick based group of indigenous Canadians, who are seeking to sue municipal and federal governments for $13 billion in damages for alleged "genocide" and loss of native lands over the past 400 years.

This argument has significant relevance to the position of indigenous sovereignty in Australia with the Canadian group arguing that they 'never ceded their land to European powers and they deserve compensation for their losses.'

This ruling could have significant ramifications for the international legitimacy of the Australian Commonwealth, in particular whether the colonial actions dating back to the acquisition of Canada as a colonial territory constituted genocide and a congruent contravention of the 'Fourth Geneva Convention'.

See : http://www.cbc.ca/canada/new-brunswick/story/2010/04/29/nb-aboriginal-lawsuit-compensation.html