CANZUK: Is this a good idea?
This popped up in my Youtube recommendations this morning, and it was the first I'd ever heard of such an idea. I knew we shared intelligence among the UK, Australia, NZ and US as part of the Five Eyes, but this is something a great deal more involved.
An economic, political and military union of the UK, Australia, New Zealand and Canada, according to the video below, would immediately become one of the four most powerful economic entities in the world, along with the US, China and European Union.
Unlike the EU, which has 27 different countries and who knows how many languages, the CANZUK countries are all parliamentary democracies that are based upon English common law. Our worldviews are generally in alignment; the video makes the point that the CANZUK voting record at the UN is essentially in lock step.
I like it as a solution to reduce our reliance on China and the United States, I like it as a way to shore up our parliamentary democracies, and I really like the idea of being able to easily move to New Zealand or Australia.
And not to put too fine a point on it, but the sun would literally never set on CANZUK.
Sure seems like it's worth a long, hard look.
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