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SUMMARY:Webinar: Why hasn’t Canada signed the UN Nuclear Ban Treaty?
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\nREGISTER FOR UN NUCLEAR BAN TREATY WEBINAR\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhy hasn’t Canada signed the UN Nuclear Ban Treaty?\n\n\n\n\nREGISTER FOR UN NUCLEAR BAN TREATY WEBINAR: November 19th, 6:30PM EDT\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nREGISTER NOW\n\n\n\n\nJoin a webinar ( https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_uRFYJ3LhTJ-Jy3tFXhBdUQ ) on the need for Canada to sign the UN Nuclear Ban Treaty, featuring Liberal MP Hedy Fry, NDP MP Heather McPherson, Green Party MP Elizabeth May, Bloc Québécois MP Alexis Brunelle-Duceppe as well as Setsuko Thurlow, survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima who jointly accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.\nCanada has not joined 122 countries represented at the July 2017 UN Conference to Negotiate a Legally Binding Instrument to Prohibit Nuclear Weapons, Leading Towards their Total Elimination. It has also declined to sign the resulting UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, which recently garnered its 50th state signatory meaning it will enter into force in 90 days.\nNuclear weapons constitute one of the most serious threats facing humanity. Nuclear explosions over cities could quickly kill tens of millions. 1% of the 13,400 nuclear weapons in the world could disrupt the global climate and threaten billions with starvation in a nuclear famine.\nCanada’s 2017 defence policy ignores the threat nuclear weapons pose to human survival (North Korean nuclear weapons are mentioned once). But, the defence policy, “Strong, Secure, Engaged” makes two dozen references to Canada’s commitment to the nuclear-armed NATO alliance.\nThe Trudeau government asserts it cannot ratify the UN Ban Treaty because of Canada’s membership in NATO, which has a nuclear weapons first-strike policy.\nThe NDP, Greens & Bloc Québécois have all called on Canada to adopt the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Some Liberal & Conservative MPs, as well as thousands of Canadians, have also called on Canada to adopt the Treaty.\nAs the UN Ban Treaty is about to become international law, this discussion on Canada’s policies on nuclear weapons with Members of Parliament is more urgent than ever.\nGUESTS:\nSetsuko Thurlow was thirteen years old when she witnessed the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. She has been a leading anti-nuclear weapons activist in Canada and globally and jointly accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons in 2017.\nDr. Hedy Fry, first elected as Liberal MP in Vancouver Centre in 1993, is a member of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development. She is the co-chair of Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Canada.\nAlexis Brunelle-Duceppe is the Bloc Québécois MP for Lac-Saint-Jean. He is Vice-Chair of the Subcommittee on International Human Rights of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development as well as of the Standing Committee on National Defence.\nHeather McPherson, the NDP MP for Edmonton Strathcona, is the Deputy House Leader of the New Democratic Party, NDP Critic for International Development, and Deputy Critic for Foreign Affairs.\nElizabeth May has been the Green Party MP for Saanich-Gulf Islands in B.C. since 2011 and is the Green Party Parliamentary Leader in the House of Commons.\nHOSTS:\nOrganizers: The Canadian Foreign Policy Institute and The Hiroshima Nagasaki Day Coalition (Toronto)\nCo-sponsors: PeaceQuest, Science for Peace, Les Artistes pour la Paix\nMedia Sponsor: Canadian Dimension\nENDORSED BY:\nAhmadiyya Muslim Jama`at Canada  ( https://www.ahmadiyya.ca/ )\nLes Artistes pour la Paix    ( http://www.artistespourlapaix.org/ )\nCanadian Federation of University Women ( http://www.cfuw.org/ )\nCanadian Network to Abolish Nuclear Weapons ( https://www.cnanw.ca/ )\nCanadian Pugwash Group ( http://pugwashgroup.ca/ )\nCanadian Voice of Women for Peace    ( https://vowpeace.org/ )\nCoalition for Responsible Energy Development in New Brunswick ( https://crednb.ca/ )  \nEdupax ( https://www.edupax.org/ )\nFriends of Rotary (FOR) Prevention of Nuclear War\nGreater Toronto Chapter, National Association of Japanese Canadians ( http://www.torontonajc.ca/ )\nHamilton Coalition to Stop the War  ( https://hamiltoncoalitiontostopthewar.ca/ )\nHiroshima Nagasaki Day Coalition (Toronto)    ( http://www.hiroshimadaycoalition.ca/ )\nInternational Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War Canada   ( https://www.ippnwcanada.ca/ )\nInter-Church Uranium Committee Educational Co-operative ( http://www.icucec.org/ )\nJust Peace Advocates ( https://www.justpeaceadvocates.ca/ )\nManitoba Peace Council ( https://www.facebook.com/groups/400966743648696 )\nMcGill Students for Peace and Disarmament\nMines Action Canada ( https://www.minesactioncanada.org/ )\nMouvement Québécois pour la Paix\nNational Association of Japanese Canadians ( http://najc.ca/ )\nNational Council of Women of Canada   ( http://www.ncwcanada.com/ )\nNikkei Voice ( http://nikkeivoice.ca/ )\nOttawa Peace Council\nPaul Maillet Centre for Ethics  ( https://paulmailletethics.wordpress.com/ )\nPax Christi Toronto\nPeace Magazine ( http://www.peacemagazine.org/ )\nPeaceQuest ( https://www.peacequest.ca/ )\nPeace Quest Cape Breton\nPivot to Peace  ( https://www.pivot2peace.com/ )\nProject Ploughshares ( https://ploughshares.ca/ )\nProject Ploughshares Saskatoon\nProject Save the World ( https://tosavetheworld.ca/ )\nRegina Peace Council\nReligions for Peace Canada ( https://www.rfp.org/ )\nRideau Institute ( https://rideauinstitute.ca/ )\nSaskatoon Peace Coalition ( https://saskatoonpeace.wordpress.com/ )\nScience for Peace ( https://scienceforpeace.ca/ )\nTao Sangha Global Community\nToronto Article 9\nVOICES for Sustainable Environments and Communities ( https://www.facebook.com/VoicesGagetown/ )\nWomen’s International League for Peace and Freedom (Vancouver)   ( https://wilpfvancouver.ca/ )\nWorld Beyond War ( https://worldbeyondwar.org/rachelsmall/ )\n\nINDIVIDUAL ENDORSEMENTS:\nJohn Polanyi, Nobel Laureate\nJoy Kogawa, poet, novelist, author of Obasan and Gently to Nagasaki.\nINTERNATIONAL ENDORSEMENTS:\nInternational Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons ( https://www.icanw.org/ ) (ICAN) International Peace Bureau ( http://www.ipb.org/ )\n\nFRENCH POSTING:\nPlease see Les Artistes pour la Paix/Artists for Peace website ( http://www.artistespourlapaix.org/?p=19442 ).\nSHARE ON FACEBOOK:\nFacebook event ( https://fb.me/e/1PrLMG4VE ).\n\nRESOURCES:\nArticle: Why Won’t Canada Back a Nuclear Weapons’ Ban? | The Tyee ( https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2020/10/29/Canada-Nuclear-Weapons-Ban/?fbclid=IwAR073Gj8_HD_z2J4CbBcLTlLvNtjqqXpSzBuu6-avx237vG8Iv-Q4mfDDhQ ) | By Bianca Mugyenyi\nArticle: Legacy of Canada’s role in atomic bomb is felt by northern Indigenous community| The Conversation | ( https://theconversation.com/legacy-of-canadas-role-in-atomic-bomb-is-felt-by-northern-indigenous-community-143524 ) By Geoffrey Bird\nArticle: No Shelter from the Storm|Cape Breton Spectator | by Sean Howard  ( https://capebretonspectator.com/2020/08/05/nuclear-threat-hiroshima-bomb/ )\nhttps://capebretonspectator.com/2020/08/05/nuclear-threat-hiroshima-bomb/\nPierre Jasmin, “Appel de Mme Setsuko Thurlow au Premier ministre” http://www.artistespourlapaix.org/?p=19078\nPierre Jasmin http://lautjournal.info/20201102/armes-nucleaires-deux-bonnes-nouvelles\nJohn Polanyi https://pugwashgroup.ca/let-reason-guide-our-actions-in-the-atomic-age/\nElizabeth Renzetti https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-a-new-global-treaty-bans-nuclear-weapons-but-why-didnt-canada-sign/\nMotoko Rich, “Witnessing Nuclear Carnage, Then Devoting Her Life to Peace,” https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/06/world/asia/hiroshima-japan-setsuko-thurlow.html\nDouglas Roche https://pugwashgroup.ca/75-years-after-hiroshima-i-wonder-if-the-goal-of-abolishing-nuclear-weapons-is-just-a-dream/\nMichael Swan, “Nuclear Arms and Canada” https://www.catholicregister.org/item/32339-nuclear-arms-and-canada\nSetsuko Thurlow https://pugwashgroup.ca/canada-must-acknowledge-our-key-role-in-developing-the-deadly-atomic-bomb/\nSetsuko Thurlow’s June 2020 appeal to Prime Minister Trudeau http://hiroshimadaycoalition.ca/data/uploads/to-the-right-honourable-justin-trudeau.pdf\nAnton Wagner, “Canada and the Atom Bomb” http://hiroshimadaycoalition.ca/data/uploads/canada-and-the-atom-bomb.pdf\nAnton Wagner, “Mackenzie King Opens the Atomic Pandora’s Box” http://nikkeivoice.ca/mackenzie-king-opens-the-atomic-pandoras-box/\n\n\n\n\n
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