A comprehensive ballistic missile defence system is viewed by many defence analysts as potentially destabilizing as it could be perceived as enabling a nuclear first strike by one side.
Canadians deserve an informed debate about the potential proliferation dangers of these new reactor designs, especially as the intention is to export them around the world.
Mark Carney’s pledge to meet NATO’s new spending target risks defining Canada’s future by bombs and budgets rather than by peacebuilding and principle.
The selection process has overlooked the broader impact on local and Indigenous populations near highways that could be used to transport nuclear waste north.
The legacy of strikes on nuclear sites has made evident that nuclear power plants and waste disposal sites could become targets in conflict zones.
There are less militaristic and less costly ways to assert sovereignty over Canada’s North and enhance world peace.
A new route to peace, like a proposed U.N. Emergency Peace Service, could be used to protect Europe’s largest nuclear power plant.
As more countries learn from the Ukraine war, the risk is that many inter-related problems surrounding nuclear power beset future generations for thousands of years.
The failed rebellion portends that Putin will lose his grip on power, that Russia could become even more of a pariah rogue state, and that its military could redeploy forces from the southern front in the Ukraine conflict around Moscow, well distant from a potential second front based in Belarus.
When defence spending is expressed as a percentage of GDP, Canada appears to be a laggard. But if measured per capita, Canada ranks high. Still, NATO should consider Canada’s other contributions to peace and security, not just its military spending.
Broad-stroke reassurances from supporters of a proposed deep geological repository for Canada’s nuclear waste have failed to allay important environmental and security concerns.
Already, the Chinese Communist Party has built one of the world’s most effective digital surveillance systems; in future, it could strangle any remaining shreds of resistance inside and outside the party.
