Whereas the UN Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons TPNW is a landmark global agreement which entered into force on January 22, 2021, calling on national governments to abandon nuclear weapons of war; And whereas local governments form a close and active link with their constituents and local social movements and the lives of Canadian residents in local governments may be impacted through any nuclear exchange with potential issues of global climate change, world food production and national or global economic order: Therefore be it resolved that UBCM support the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons ICAN Cities Appeal and request that the federal government take decisive steps toward the global elimination of nuclear weapons and sign and ratify the TPNW.
