Foreign Affairs committee  I'll make it very short. Looking at the rationale for countries to go nuclear, we saw that India and Pakistan have already gone nuclear, so they are a huge concern. North Korea has gone nuclear, so they're a huge concern. Iran looks set to follow suit. Were there misguided polic

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you for the question. The Preparatory Commission is looking at a global approach, which is preparing the way for a multilateral diplomatic conference in 2014 on the idea of the negotiations for a nuclear weapons convention. I had suggested that as well as having multilat

Foreign Affairs committee  I, too, will answer in English. I apologize. First, does Canada have the credibility to lead such an initiative? You pointed to an area where maybe Canada might not have credibility. As someone from outside Canada who is very engaged in the international diplomatic process at th

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you. Your question is too big to answer in a couple of minutes, because it addresses a security doctrine that is subscribed to by all the NATO countries, for example, and how to move from such a security doctrine to one in which nuclear weapons are not perceived as relevan

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you very much for raising that, because that was a fundamental shift in thinking in the United States. It provided the basis for President Obama to put forward the Prague speech and then follow through with a number of initiatives from the Obama administration on pursuing t

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you for raising that important issue. Of course, a concern to all of us is the growing capacity of Iran to move towards a nuclear weapons capability and the risks that this would pose. There are a range of responses. Unilateral sanctions, for example, have been tried. It se

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I wish to thank the chair of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development for inviting me to speak in the place of Commander Robert Green, who unfortunately had to return to his home and family in Christchurch following the devas