Carney can’t avert his eyes from new and expert demands for nuclear disarmament

Mark Carney, reaching out to middle powers, has become a world leader. He cannot avert his eyes from new and expert demands for nuclear disarmament just because Canada does not possess nuclear weapons.

Prime Minister Mark Carney, pictured July 21, 2026, talking to reporters outside of the Prime Ministers Office in Ottawa. The very least that the prime minister of Canada can do is to send a government delegation as an official observer at the next major TPNW meeting at the UN in New York from Nov. 30-Dec. 4, writes Douglas Roche. The Hill Times photograph by Aidan Raynor

Opinion

BY DOUGLAS ROCHE

July 27, 2026

EDMONTON—Thirty Nobel Prize laureates. Leading artificial intelligence researchers from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Anthropic. Experts in international security, ethics, and technology from 30 countries. This was the cast of an extraordinary assembly of scientists and pol...

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