World’s only surviving multilateral nuclear weapons treaty is on the verge of collapse

Parliament is snoozing while the world shifts into a confrontational mode—driven by the military-industrial complex, which all along has been responsible for the enlargement of NATO, which was a principal factor in producing the conditions that led to Vladimir Putin’s war. Putin has made Ukraine sorry it ever gave up its nuclear weapons. Canada's Parliament should speak up, writes Doug Roche.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, pictured May 30, in Ottawa. Does anybody care that the world’s only surviving multilateral nuclear weapons treaty—the one designed to stop the spread of nuclear weapons around the world—is on the verge of collapse, writes Douglas Roche. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY DOUGLAS ROCHE

July 18, 2022

EDMONTON—Joe Biden is ineffectual. Vladimir Putin is demented. Donald Trump is ubiquitous. Antonio Guterres is invisible. Jens Stoltenberg reigns. Political leadership in the world is broken. And so it’s not hard to predict a train wreck is coming when the month-long Non-Proliferation Tre...

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