Non-proliferation meets non-partisanship

Published December 15, 2010

Hansard recorded the event in the House of Commons under "Routine Proceedings," but there was nothing routine about it. For the first time in the history of Canada's Parliament, both the House of Commons and Senate united in a motion calling on the Canadian government to engage in negotiations for a legal ban on all nuclear weapons.

At 4.50 p.m. on Dec. 7, NDP MP Bill Siksay sought the unanimous consent...

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