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Outreach Activities
Consulting Canadians
Government Consultations with Civil Society on Issues Related to International Security, Nuclear Weapons and Other Weapons of Mass Destruction and their Delivery Systems, Ottawa, August 26, 2003
Government Consultations with Civil Society on Issues Relating to Nuclear and Other Weapons of Mass Destruction Ottawa, ON - April 22-23, 2002
In its April 1999 response to the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade (SCFAIT)'s report Canada and the Nuclear Challenge: Reducing the Political Value of Nuclear Weapons for the Twenty-First Century, the Government agreed to hold annual consultations with non-governmental organizations and other representatives of civil society on Canada's nuclear non-proliferation, arms control and disarmament (NACD) policy. The third annual consultations were held at the Lester B. Pearson Building in Ottawa on 22-23 April, 2002.
Government Consultations with Civil Society on Nuclear Issues
Ottawa, ON - 10-11 May 2001
In its April 1999 response to the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade (SCFAIT)'s report Canada and the Nuclear Challenge: Reducing the Political Value of Nuclear Weapons for the Twenty-First Century, the Government agreed to hold annual consultations with non-governmental organizations and other representatives of civil society on Canada's nuclear non-proliferation, arms control and disarmament (NACD) policy. The second annual consultations were held at the Lester B. Pearson Building in Ottawa on 10-11 May, 2001.
Speaking Tour by Christopher Westdal, Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations for Disarmament
March 2-8, 2000
In early March, Canada's Ambassador for Disarmament in Geneva, Christopher Westdal, visited a number of Canadian cities and deleivered a speech entitaled, " DR. STRANGELOVE LIVES! How I Learned to Start Worrying and Stop Loving the Bomb" . The speaking tour, which was arranged in cooperation with local universities and NGOs, included stops in Ottawa, Hamilton, Toronto, Waterloo, Winnipeg, Calgary, Victoria and Vancouver. Ambassador Westdal's tour - part of DFAIT's sustained program of outreach and public consultation - was deigned to stimulate public awareness and debate about Canadian action to improve nuclear arms control. It was also intended to enrich Canadian non-proliferation, arms control and disarmament policy analysis and discourse in preparation for the first review of the indefinitely extended Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) in April/May 2000.
Government Consultations with Civil Society on Selected Nuclear Issues
Feb 3-4, 2000, Ottawa
In its April 1999 response to the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade (SCFAIT)'s report Canada and the Nuclear Challenge: Reducing the Political Value of Nuclear Weapons for the Twenty-First Century, the Government agreed to hold annual consultations with non-governmental organizations and other representatives of civil society on Canada's nuclear non-proliferation, arms control and disarmament (NACD) policy. The inaugural consultations were held at the Government Conference Centre in Ottawa on 3-4 February 2000.
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