Canada still possesses hundreds of cluster bombs it purchased during the Cold War. DND recently began the expensive and dangerous process of dismantling the munitions.
Cluster bombs: an expensive mess


Canada still possesses hundreds of cluster bombs it purchased during the Cold War. DND recently began the expensive and dangerous process of dismantling the munitions.

The Harper government has introduced legislation that will have the effect of gutting Canadian support for the 2008 treaty banning cluster bombs.

The Harper government has introduced legislation that will have the effect of gutting Canadian support for the 2008 treaty banning cluster bombs.
A global treaty that bans the use of cluster bombs, a weapon containing multiple – often hundreds – of small explosive submunitions or bomblets, will …