Leading civil society organizations hold public launch of their submission to the Defence Policy Review, calling for a shift to sustainable peace and common security
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RI President on immoral Saudi deal
Liberals vote against motion for arms export control sub-committee.
Canada must do its part to rein in the global arms industry
Canada must do its part to rein in the global arms industry.
Saudi arms sale “unprecedented”
Canada’s deal to equip Saudi Arabia with armoured vehicles is even larger than previously thought, according to official data obtained by Project Ploughshares through an Access to Information request.
Saudi arms contract has 'significant risk'
Celebrated by the Canadian government as the “largest advanced manufacturing export win” in the country’s existence, the recently announced $10-billion sale of armoured vehicles to Saudi Arabia poses a “significant risk” of contributing to serious human rights violations.
Nuclear protocol with China "weak"
The Conservative government opened the way in 2012 for a major Canadian uranium mining company to export raw uranium to China by changing longstanding nuclear non-proliferation rules to ones described by the government’s own report as “weak”.