Paul Meyer
Paul Meyer is a former Canadian Ambassador for Disarmament currently affiliated with Simon Fraser University and The Simons Foundation in Vancouver.
Canada has not designated space systems as part of the nation’s critical infrastructure, even though allies Australia, France, and the United Kingdom have done so.
Canada has flunked an early test by failing to attend as an observer a major meeting of states party to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons last week.
Vladimir Putin’s irresponsible actions should not only remind the world of the coercive risks inherent in nuclear weapons, but also of the imperative to re-energize diplomatic efforts to repair the damage to arms control regimes. We will not regain nuclear peace of mind without such engagement.
