Tory leadership candidates champion CANZUK pact, but trade experts question idea’s merit

Canada already has a free trade agreement with Australia and New Zealand as part of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP).

Conservative leadership candidates Marilyn Gladu, left, and Erin O'Toole, right, have both endorsed a CANZUK initiative. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade

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BY NEIL MOSS

February 19, 2020

Conservative leadership candidates are renewing a call for a new Commonwealth trading network amid Britain's exit from the European Union, but trade experts question the value of such a proposition. Part of the Conservative Party's policy platform since 2018 is the hope for a free-trade, free-movem...

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