Brexit-watch.org recently interviewed former Australian deputy prime minister John Anderson, former leader of the government in the Australian Senate Eric Abetz, as well as Erin OToole - a candidate to be the next leader of the Canadian Conservative Party - on our YouTube channel.

All three spoke at length about the potential of Canzuk. For many commentators and politicians in Australia, Canada and New Zealand, closer ties between the three countries and Britain represents a perfect realignment for post-Brexit Britain. Canzuk also represents a perfect realignment for all four nations in a post-coronavirus world economy.

Today, the United States is starting to retreat from global leadership. Yet the Western alliance needs formalising and leading, while the EU will never fulfil that role. Canzuk - and the United States - already share Five Eyes and the UKUSA Agreement. Formalisation, after Brexit, of the economic and military ties between Canzuk would enable not just greater prosperity, but more geopolitical reach and military interoperability.

After Covid-19, we can assume Australia, Canada and New Zealand will not want to put all their eggs in one Sinocentric basket. Australia has been particularly vigorous in its response to China, while Canzuk parliamentarians recently joined forces over Hong Kong. Cross-pollinating the Canzuk economies would be a winning formula, given the desire to onshore critical industry and lessen reliance on China after Covid-19.

No one is suggesting Canzuk has a common currency. When trust and bonds are embedded, there is no need for EU-style bureaucracy. But whether in the realm of economics or security, Canzuk is a no-brainer. The EU, meanwhile, has showcased its divisions for the world to see. Italy is not to Germany what Australia is to Britain (and lets not even get started on the cultural Iron Curtain between central and eastern Europe on the one hand, and western Europe on the other). The bonds and trust exist between the Canzuk nations to do something far greater than what exists today.

Try as it might, this is something the EU can never replicate. This is also a moment where the Western world needs a united front but at a time when the US is (perhaps understandably) unwilling to carry the Western alliance. Geography has never mattered less but cultural proximity will always count. Canzuk would bring the best out of each country. Get Canzuk done!

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