Read “Don’t Bank on the Bomb,” the new report from ICAN and IKV Pax Christi that details how 298 private and public financial institutions from around the world invest almost $314 billion in 27 companies involved in the production, maintenance, and modernization of nuclear weapons.
New Democrats support a comprehensive nuclear weapons convention for Canada.
Ceasefire.ca would like to thank all volunteer campaigners across Canada, and to the many MPs who have voiced their support for peace and global nuclear disarmament.
Unprepared to sit and wait while thousands of nuclear weapons remain on full alert, citizens are organizing on every continent to demand their governments establish a convention banning nuclear weapons.
According to a recent New York Times report, the United States is “quietly urging” Britain to abandon its “independent nuclear deterrent”.
A delegation from the Abolition 2000 network visited the Clyde Naval Base in Faslane, Scotland on April 19th and released the Faslane Declaration, which calls on the UK to remove the nuclear weapons based in Scotland, abandon nuclear deterrence, and join negotiations for global nuclear abolition.