UN vote will be moment of truth for Canada

Expected later this month, it would spark the start of talks next year toward eliminating nuclear weapons.

Parliamentary Secretary to the Foreign Minister Pam Goldsmith-Jones, pictured earlier this year, has dismissed a UN-mandated working-group process as having 'failed to bring the states possessing nuclear weapons to the table.'The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

Opinion

BY DOUGLAS ROCHE

October 5, 2016

EDMONTON—“The General Assembly...decides to convene a United Nations conference in 2017, to negotiate a legally-binding instrument to prohibit nuclear weapons, leading towards their total elimination.” These 26 words form the key operative paragraph in the most important nuclear disarmament r...

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