Hiroshima Day Coalition annual commemoration for global peace

It's time again to remember the incredible destructive nature of nuclear weaponry and the urgent need to eliminate them.  Join the HDC and all their supporters on Friday, August 6, 2011 for a lantern ceremony and performances at Nathan Phillips Square.  6:30pm -9:00pm.

Vision Green;

5.4 Press for the elimination of all nuclear weapons

"According to the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, and leading Canadian experts like former Ambassador for Disarmament, the Hon. Douglas Roche, the world has quietly entered a second nuclear age. On Januay 17, 2007, world scientists moved the hands on the “Doomsday Clock” two minutes closer to midnight in light of the dual threats of climate change and the increasing effort to build nuclear weapons. Not since the bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki has the world been closer to the threat of nuclear war. Canada has simply not been doing its part to stop the spread of nuclear weapons and to protest when allies violate the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. In fact, Canada continues to press for sales of its CANDU nuclear technology around the world, without adequate safeguards. Canada has sold reactors to dictatorships, such as Argentina in the junta era. The Canadian research reactor waste in India allowed that nation to join the nuclear club. Phasing out nuclear energy as an aspect of nuclear military disarmament is essential. The Harper government’s decision to contract insell nuclear materials towith India is in contravention to the terms of the Non-Proliferation Treaty, concluded at the 2010 G-20 meeting, further erodedings limits on nuclear weapons and global respect for the rule of law.

The Green Party of Canada strives for global disarmament, and for the conversion of all military industries in Canada and worldwide into peaceful, sustainable industries. We, at the Green Party, realize that it is difficult for a single country to disarm unilaterally under the threat of another arming state, and that disarmament can be best achieved multilaterally, in harmony and communion universally, and at a global level, notably through the UN."

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