Canada still has obligation to participate in good faith in negotiations on nuclear disarmament

If the NPT review conferences in 2021 and 2025 end in indecision, the nuclear disarmament movement, in Canada and abroad, will likely move its agenda outside of the UN’s formal NPT regime to draw public attention to the humanitarian impact of use of nuclear weapons.

Canada's UN ambassador to the UN Bob Rae, pictured in a file photograph, and the Trudeau government face calls to consider the humanitarian impact of use of nuclear weapons and to sign onto the UN ban treaty. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY ERIKA SIMPSON

January 25, 2021

In the face of nuclear threats and renewed spending on nuclear arms, 122 nations, from Austria to Brazil to Ireland—not including Canada—proposed a UN resolution

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