Mr. Speaker, we achieved a historic milestone last month on the road to global peace and security. The 50th nation ratified and tabled its documents for the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. With the 50th ratification from the state of Honduras, the treaty will enter into force legally on January 22.
Shamefully, it enters into force without Canada. I so hope that our country will step up as we did on the Ottawa land mines process and stand up against weapons of mass destruction, sign and ratify, so Canada can join New Zealand, Costa Rica and many other countries in standing up for world peace in this 75th anniversary year since Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
I thank the people at the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. We support their work.