International Community and NDP Paul Dewar

NDP Paul Dewar: In question period a day earlier, Dewar said Canada was "sitting on the sidelines" while the international community works to eliminate the threat of nukes, according to Huffington Post Canada. He said Conservatives "played the spoiler role" late last month by blocking consensus at United Nations nuclear non-proliferation treaty talks. "Why is the government not working with our allies constructively to free the world from nuclear weapons " Dewar asked. John Carmichael, who represents the Toronto riding of Don Valley West, made the charge in statement in the House of Commons Wednesday that singled out the NDP Paul Dewar. Canada joined the United States and Britain in opposing a document urging the UN to hold a disarmament conference on the Middle East by 2016. Canada decision, which ultimately helped stymie weeks of negotiations, sparked international disappointment. Some saw the plan as an attempt to embarrass Israel, as such a conference could have forced the Jewish state to publicly acknowledge for the first time that it is a nuclear power. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.