James Skinner
James is the Founder & Chief Executive of
CANZUK International in Vancouver, Canada
Conservative Party of Canada Leader, Pierre Poilievre, has publicly pitched a modern CANZUK partnership during his current visit to London.
Poilievre announced his plan for a new partnership at a small reception on Monday night by the UK Conservative Party at the Carlton Club near St. James Palace in central London. More details about the vision will be provided on Tuesday as he delivers the annual Margaret Thatcher Lecture hosted by the Centre for Policy Studies, a leading centre-right think tank in the UK.
An excerpt of his speech for Tuesday was provided to Global News, where he will state:
“The time has come for a new partnership among Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand – a modern CANZUK – a pact to open our economies further, remove barriers, recognize credentials, expand skilled labour mobility, and deepen capital markets.”
He will also say that, should he become Prime Minister of Canada, he would advance policies that would allow for automatic professional recognition for doctors, engineers and nurses so that credentials earned in one country would be accepted in all four.
“If someone can perform heart surgery in Sydney, Australia, they should be able to do so in Sydney, Nova Scotia,” Poilievre is to say.
Similarly, he will emphasize that the four countries ought to agree on a “regulatory presumption of equivalence,” being the idea that if a product is approved as safe and reliable in one country, it should be approved in all four countries under the same terms.
“If a drug or auto part is safe in London, England, it should be safe in London, Ontario.”
Seeing a prominent leader like Poilievre champion a “modern CANZUK” on the international stage – in the heart of London, no less – validates years of grassroots and lobbying efforts, and positions the initiative firmly in the mainstream of serious policy discussion.
CANZUK International welcomes this development and looks forward to engaging further with Pierre Poilievre’s team to advance CANZUK-supportive policies.
“The time has come for a new partnership among Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand – a modern CANZUK – a pact to open our economies further, remove barriers, recognize credentials, expand skilled labour mobility, and deepen capital markets.”
He will also say that, should he become Prime Minister of Canada, he would advance policies that would allow for automatic professional recognition for doctors, engineers and nurses so that credentials earned in one country would be accepted in all four.
“If someone can perform heart surgery in Sydney, Australia, they should be able to do so in Sydney, Nova Scotia,” Poilievre is to say.
Similarly, he will emphasize that the four countries ought to agree on a “regulatory presumption of equivalence,” being the idea that if a product is approved as safe and reliable in one country, it should be approved in all four countries under the same terms.
“If a drug or auto part is safe in London, England, it should be safe in London, Ontario.”
Seeing a prominent leader like Poilievre champion a “modern CANZUK” on the international stage – in the heart of London, no less – validates years of grassroots and lobbying efforts, and positions the initiative firmly in the mainstream of serious policy discussion.
CANZUK International welcomes this development and looks forward to engaging further with Pierre Poilievre’s team to advance CANZUK-supportive policies.
Heading photo: Pierre Poilievre: Creative Commons License Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International
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