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Troublemaking: more questions about Canada’s plutonium funding and nuclear weapons proliferation

Canadians should be alarmed by Ottawa’s seemingly cavalier attitude to the security dangers inherent in its embrace and subsidization of private companies hawking promises of nuclear techno-fixes to our climate change obligations.

Opinion
BY JANICE HARVEY AND SUSAN O’DONNELL
April 4, 2022

Opinion | BY JANICE HARVEY AND SUSAN O’DONNELL | April 4, 2022

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