Please read the following statement from Elizabeth May, MP for Saanich—Gulf Islands and Leader of the Green Party of Canada, recognising Hiroshima Day:
”When the two atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki 79 years ago, hundreds of thousands of Japanese civilians were killed immediately and thousands more died and continue to suffer from the catastrophic aftereffects. The threat these weapons pose is existential and rises above politics. I am proud to be a champion for peace and for the abolition of nuclear weapons. For the sakes of our children and future generations, Canada must ban nuclear weapons and advocate for global nuclear disarmament. In the words of Toronto resident Setsuko Thurlow, a Hiroshima survivor who was just 13 years old when her home was destroyed and her family members killed, “inaction is not an option”.”