House of Commons, three Members of Parliament

Third letter from a constituent in Ottawa Centre — sponsorship of an electronic petition, answer required by 26 September 2026

Hello,

One of them asks for a signature and nothing else. Standing Order 36 lets any member sponsor an electronic petition, and the House states that sponsorship is not endorsement. The petition asks the Government of Canada to acquire and maintain a deterrent under Canadian control. A plan goes to Parliament within 6 months. Each month the Government names the guarantee on which the defence of Canada rests.

The record behind it is finished work, not an opinion. The complete LEGISinfo dataset, pulled on 4 September, holds 7,142 bills since 17 January 1994. 33 carry the word nuclear in the title, and not one proposes that Canada hold a deterrent of its own. The text and the figures are published here: https://dzyuban.com/legal/bills/nuclear-deterrent/

The office of the member for Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound replies that it answers residents of its own riding and directs others to their own member. This is that member, and this is that riding.

Answer yes or no by 26 September 2026. A refusal is an answer and will be recorded as one. Silence past that date is recorded as silence, under the name of the member and the riding. The register is public, and it lists who was asked and what each replied.

Respectfully,
Danilo Dzyuban
Ottawa, Ontario [postal code]

An instrument, a question and a signature — the deterrence question has never been put to the House

Hello,

I write as the author of a brief already before your committee. The Standing Committee on National Defence received it on 29 August 2026 and the clerk confirmed receipt. I live in Ottawa Centre, so this is not constituency service. It asks for parliamentary acts, and each one is open to any member.

I pulled the complete LEGISinfo dataset on 4 September 2026. It holds 7,142 bills, everything before Parliament since 17 January 1994. 33 carry the word nuclear in the title, and every one is liability, safety, waste, terrorism, sanctions, or corporate reorganisation. Not one proposes that Canada hold a deterrent of its own. The question has never been defeated in the House, because it has never been put to it.

The instruments say less than they are said to say. Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty binds each Party to take such action as it deems necessary, and Article 13 permits withdrawal one year after notice. The 2006 NORAD Agreement assigns aerospace warning, aerospace control and maritime warning. It carries no undertaking by either Party to defend the other against nuclear attack, and it ends on 12 months notice. Neither instrument was enacted by Parliament.

The former Chief of the Defence Staff said in Ottawa on 2 February 2026 that Canada will never have true strategic independence absent its own nuclear deterrent. The Minister of National Defence answered the next day that the Government has no intention of acquiring nuclear weapons. Between those 2 positions sits no bill, no study and no vote.

Three acts are open to you, and the third costs a signature.

Move in committee that the National Defence file be examined against the treaty text, and that the Department state which instrument obliges any state to defend Canada against nuclear attack.

Put a written question on the Order Paper under Standing Order 39, asking the Government to name that instrument, to state the cost of a minimum credible deterrent under Canadian control, and to produce the plans prepared under paragraph 6 (1)(a) of the Emergency Management Act for armed attack on Canada.

Sponsor the electronic petition under Standing Order 36. The House states that sponsorship is not endorsement. The petition asks the Government to acquire and maintain a deterrent under Canadian control, to table a plan within 6 months, and to name each month the guarantee on which the defence of Canada rests.

The bill is drafted in statutory form, with custody under 2 ministers acting together, no transfer, no explosive testing, safeguards kept over every civil facility, and oversight by cleared members of both chambers. The text and the figures are published here: https://dzyuban.com/legal/bills/nuclear-deterrent/

Answer by 26 September 2026. A refusal in writing is an answer and is recorded as one. Silence is recorded as silence, under the name of the member and the riding, in a public register of who was asked and what each replied.

Respectfully,
Danilo Dzyuban
Ottawa, Ontario [postal code]