Canada turns back on UN plan to ban nuclear arms

At the very moment Canadian leadership was once more needed, the country took a dive.

Tariq Rauf, left, who specializes in nuclear disarmament, says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, right, 'seems disengaged on nuclear arms control.'UN photograph by Amanda Voisard and Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

Opinion

BY DOUGLAS ROCHE

August 24, 2016

EDMONTON—In an amazing diplomatic volte-face, the Canadian government last week in Geneva voted against starting, in 2017, negotiations to ban nuclear weapons. The government turned its back on an important nuclear disarmament initiative and sided with the nuclear weapons states that want to keep ...

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