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Arms Canada

The Deadly Business of Military Exports

by (author) Ernie Regehr

Publisher
James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers
Initial publish date
Dec 2011
Category
Weapons, General
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780888629609
    Publish Date
    Jan 1987
    List Price
    $45.00
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780888629593
    Publish Date
    Jan 1987
    List Price
    $16.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781552779460
    Publish Date
    Dec 2011
    List Price
    $16.99

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This 1987 book begins with a scene from the American invasion of Grenada: as politicians in Ottawa argued whether Canada had been misled or merely ignored over the invasion, the fighter aircraft, helicopters, and ships used in the operation employed key Canadian components.

Grenada was only too typical of Canada's involvement in the international arms trade. Drawing on a wealth of original research, Ernie Regehr paints a disturbing picture of the Canadian arms industry, an industry whose sales then totalled $3 billion annually and whose customers included regimes that routinely ignored human rights.

Arms Canada is a book that will inform, anger, and shock, as it demonstrates how the publicity-shy arms industry achieved a position of power in Canadian society, and ultimately how it compromised Canadian autonomy.

About the author

Ernie Regehr, O.C., is co-founder of Project Ploughshares, one of Canada’s premier peace and security NGOs. He has served as an NGO representative and expert advisor on numerous Government of Canada delegations to multilateral disarmament forums, including Review Conferences of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and UN Conferences on Small Arms. He is the author and editor of a number of books and articles.

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