Ottawa’s plan to vastly boost our military spending will hugely and needlessly drain resources from every other priority.

But if there’s a silver lining, it’s this: Mark Carney could use the additional international credibility that all this excessive military spending will likely win him to make a significant difference in pushing the world towards nuclear sanity.

Of course, it’s unlikely that the world will adopt a saner approach to avoiding nuclear war. Still, in an age when U.S. President Donald Trump and AI only increase the possibility of nuclear Armageddon, it’s urgent that we try.

And Carney is in an excellent position to do so, having made a surprisingly impactful impression on the world in his brief stint as Canada’s prime minister.

Here’s what we need Carney to do.

Right now, at the UN in New York, talks aimed at saving the world’s nuclear disarmament process — ultimately aimed at eliminating all nuclear weapons — are hopelessly stalled, and risk falling apart.

The central problem is that the nuclear-armed states are not reducing their arsenals, which they promised to do as part of the grand bargain they signed with non-nuclear........

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