''We are thus not only the first country in the world with the capability to produce nuclear weapons that chose not to do so, we are also the first nuclear armed country to have chosen to divest itself of nuclear weapons.''
Pierre Trudeau,
United Nations,
26 May 1978
For 35 years, Ottawa and BC have allowed torpedo testing near Nanoose Bay in the Georgia Strait. Most of the torpedos are American, and some of the US vessels that visit the site [ outlined in burgundy ] are nuclear powered and nuclear weapons capable.Last year, the BC government decided not to renew the lease. The Chrétien cabinet, furious, decided to expropriate the test range; a hostile take-over. Polls show that most Canadians (over 90 percent) want to see nuclear weapons abolished; they are against keeping the Nanoose range open, because they see it as part of the nuclear weapons infrastructure of the USA.
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