In London, Poilievre pitches new UK, Australia, New Zealand partnership
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Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is in Europe where he's arguing for tighter economic and security relations between Canada, New Zealand, Australia and its European allies.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, on his first overseas trip as leader of the official opposition, is pitching a new plan to bind Canada closer to the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand.
The plan that would go beyond existing trade deals each country has with each other to do more to boost defence co-operation and cut regulations that inhibit trade.
Poilievre sketched out his plan for a new partnership at a small reception given Monday night by the Conservative Party of Great Britain at the party’s 194-year-old “home” at the Carlton Club near St. James Palace in central London.
On Tuesday, Poilievre will present the complete plan as he delivers the annual Margaret Thatcher Lecture hosted by the Centre for Policy Studies, a leading centre-right think tank in the U.K.
“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,” Poilievre will say in the lecture.
An excerpt from a draft copy of Tuesday’s speech was provided to Global News.
Poilievre, according to the draft, will argue that regulatory barriers in the UK are blocking meaningful access to the UK market for Canadian beef producers and ought to be eliminated.
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Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is in Europe where he's arguing for tighter economic and security relations between Canada, New Zealand, Australia and its European allies.
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