ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the effect of Canada’s safeguards policy upon Canadian industry and on the conduct of Canada’s international nuclear trade. The views of the nuclear industry on the effect of non-proliferation policies on trade are therefore pertinent. A policy denying the beneficial use of nuclear energy to certain countries must inevitably result in those countries finding some way to obtain the required nuclear supplies from a competitor supplier or through the determined work of their own experts. A prospective customer nation which has been denied nuclear supplies will harbour resentment which may spread into other areas of trade or international relationship. Canada could do more to limit the proliferation of nuclear weapons if it gave the world a lead in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, uses that benefit all of humanity. Pending universal acceptance, Canada must not put impediments that are unique to itself in the way of benevolent nuclear trade.
