It was one of the most highly-publicized kidnappings in the Iraqi war. Canadian peace activist James Loney, who was taken hostage for ransom at gunpoint in November 2005 and held for 118 days, along with other members of the Christian Peacemaker Teams—Canadian Harmeet Singh Sooden, Brit Norman Kember and American Tom Fox, who was later murdered and dumped on a Baghdad street—has a message for Canada's political leaders: the planet is in the middle of its sixth major extinction of human life and politicians should be focusing on climate change, human development, education, democracy and food security, not on war, weapons, bombs, and death.

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