Canada on the wrong side of anti-nuke movement

The release of a draft of a UN agreement to ban nuclear weapons provides further momentum for the effort to stave off one of humanity's greatest threats.

Demonstrators called on the Trudeau government to vote in favour of nuclear disarmament negotiations at the UN, at a protest organized by The Ottawa Committee for Nuclear Disarmament in December.The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

Opinion

BY DOUGLAS ROCHE

May 31, 2017

EDMONTON—Leaders of the Canadian government who in the past few months have contented themselves with vapid excuses for not supporting efforts at the United Nations to prohibit nuclear weapons will have to work overtime to find credible reasons to maintain resistance, now that the draft text of a ...

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