Don't Like The Sounds Of This

The Canadian Nuclear Association is hosting a wing-ding on the dawn of the "nuclear Renaissance" and place is going to be chock-a-block with Conservative politicians, including Lisa Raitt, Brad Wall, and Hugh Seagal.

Even T-Rex is showing up to use a lotta 12 syllable words to insult environmentalists with.

Canada's New Policy: No Nukes If Necessary, But Not Necessarily No Nukes

This Week's Embassy Magazine picks up on a surreptitious edit to the Foreign Affairs and International Trade Website (changes in bold):

Canada has long held a policy objective of non-proliferation, reduction and elimination of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction. We pursue this aim steadily, persistently and energetically, consistent with our membership in NATO and NORAD and in a manner sensitive to the broader international security context.

As the editorial notes, this change "strips Canada's policy of any real meaning. ", and I would add that it makes our nuclear policy hostage to that of our NATO allies, esp. the United States, who may be preparing to let the bunker-busters fall like rain over Iran.