Nuclear disarmament rep’s visit a good time to flex Canadian foreign policy muscle

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau would better display Canada’s worthiness for a UN Security Council seat by action to back the body's efforts to put some teeth in nuclear disarmament.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau secured the support of Senegalese President Macky Sall in Canada’s bid for a UN Security Council seat on his recent trip to the country, but Canada’s backing of UN efforts towards nuclear disarmament would be a more worthy endeavour, writes Douglas Roche.Twitter photograph by Adam Scotti

Opinion

BY DOUGLAS ROCHE

February 19, 2020

EDMONTON—In a world that seems every week to be further jettisoning international law on global security as ugly national populism rises, is there any hope for the elimination of nuclear weapons? Or is nuclear disarmament a mirage, its wispy allure always over an ever-clouding horizon? Well, perh...

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