Canada should back effort to eliminate nuclear weapons

Former U.S. defence secretary William Perry has said, 'The danger of a nuclear catastrophe today is greater than during the Cold War.'

Foreign Affairs Minister Stéphane Dion has shown no signs that he grasps the nuclear moral and political crisis, write Douglas Roche.The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

Opinion

BY DOUGLAS ROCHE

August 8, 2016

EDMONTON—What will it take to get the Canadian government to start fighting for the elimination of nuclear weapons rather than against? That question takes on a special poignancy as we observe another Hiroshima Day—the 71st anniversary of the Aug. 6, 1945, atomic bombing that set off...

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