Archive » Tag: arms exports
Canadian mediation, China co-existence, Nordstream revelations and arms export hypocrisy
February 12, 2023
Canadian mediation in Cameroon, constructive co-existence with China, startling Ukraine developments, the origins of Canada’s arms export policy and new space risks are all topics in today’s post.
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New Foreign and Defence Ministers have big challenges ahead
October 29, 2021
Our blog (now posted early Friday afternoon) examines the daunting challenges facing our newly appointed Foreign and Defence Ministers and how they can rise to successfully meet them. We wish them well!
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An arms export control agency worthy of Canada
October 13, 2020
Our blog considers an exciting new idea to take the politics out of Canada’s arms exports controls through an independent, impartial agency. And we celebrate the granting of the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize to the UN World Food Programme.
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Bill C-47 leaves majority of Canada’s military exports unregulated
March 5, 2018
In her address to the Geneva Conference on Disarmament on 28 February last, Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland discussed Bill C-47, Canada’s legislation for accession to the Arms Trade Treaty: Canadians are rightly concerned about how arms could be used to perpetuate regional and international conflicts in which civilians have suffered and lost their lives. We […]
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