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THE SENATE OF CANADA
LE SENAT DU CANADA
June 13, 2002
PRESS RELEASE
Statement by Senator Douglas Roche, O.C.
on receiving an Honorary Doctor of Laws at York University, Toronto.
Yesterday I introduced a Motion in the Senate calling for Canada to lead
an international effort to ban all weapons in space.
This work has now become urgent following the official termination of the
Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty and U.S. military plans to include
space-based weapons in the National Missile Defence (NMD) system.
Unrestrained by the ABM Treaty which it abandoned today, the U.S. is
moving ahead with the development of space weapons. The Missile Defense
Agency has requested $1.3 billion to develop and test “kinetic kill
vehicles” – a system of rockets situated in space. The Agency wants to
spend an additional $285 million for research on space-based lasers.
Space will become the next battlefield unless the international community
quickly moves to create a binding international agreement against the
weaponization of space.
The weaponization of space risks instigating a dangerous and costly arms
race and would jeopardize the peaceful commercial and scientific activities
of some 1,100 companies in 53 countries using space for many kinds of
communications and financial transactions. This annual $81 billion business
would be put in peril.
For three decades, Canadian government policy has opposed weapons in
space. But the Conference on Disarmament, the U.N.’s disarmament
negotiations body, is deadlocked on this and other issues. To obtain an
Anti-Personnel Landmine Treaty, the Canadian government bypassed the
Conference on Disarmament with an “Ottawa Process.” A new “Ottawa Process
to Ban Weapons in Space” would work with like-minded governments and civil
society leaders to build up world pressure to stop the weaponization of space.
Canada faces an extremely difficult moment in its relations with the U.S.
If Canada supports the U.S. Missile Defence System as it proceeds into
space, Canada will be breaking its long-held policy opposing weapons in
space. A fundamental shift in Canada’s foreign policy will then have
occurred. Canada must work now to stop the deployment of any weapons in
space.
THE SENATE OF CANADA
LE SENAT DU CANADA
Excerpts Debates of the Senate (Hansard)
Wednesday, June 12, 2002
Ban on Weapons in Space
Notice of Motion
Hon. Douglas Roche: Honourable senators, I give notice that, two days hence,
I will move:
That the Senate recommend that the Government of Canada lead an international
effort to ban the introduction of all weapons in space through a binding
international agreement against the weaponization of space, given
(i) the termination of the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty, and U.S.
military plans to include space-based weapons in the National Missile Defence
(NMD) system; and
(ii) the weaponization of space would instigate a dangerous and costly arms
race and disrupt peaceful commercial and scientific endeavours in space.
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