Many of us have parents, partners and spouses, children, near and extended families, and friends and colleagues from two or more CANZUK countries. Many of us refuse to accept only one half of our identity, or to force our children to do the same. All of us are now separated by artificial boundaries that complicate family relations, and burden opportunities for wider study, work, or residence with unneeded bureaucracy.
We specifically focus on the prospects for such a grouping, which will have the character of a federal state. Our analysis leads us to believe that geopolitical events, such as that which has occurred with Brexit and the COVID pandemic, have made CANZUK Federation increasingly more possible and increasingly more necessary. We believe events now in train will continue to drive the emergence of such a federation.
We are building a network of Anglosphere communities who share this broad goal. We will take measured steps to advance toward the creation of this federal state based firmly on the principle of subsidiarity and autonomous arrangements for each member country. In the emerging world of evolving international structures and rethinking of the historical assumptions of post-Cold War globalism, all four CANZUK nations are rethinking their alliances and associations.
The volatility of American politics is forcing a re-examination of security; the internal turmoil of post-Brexit Europe renders them problematic as a main partner, and the uncovering of the extent of Chinese influence in the domestic politics of CANZUK nations makes economic reliance on their markets uncomfortable.
By ourselves, individually, the CANZUK nations are finding it hard to keep up an all-around capability in the defense world. Cooperation with each other makes independence much more affordable. But history has shown that mere alliances, no matter how much their members believe in them, never match a united national command for reliability when it really counts.
We will respect each nation’ traditions and identities but, drawing on common shared experiences such as the World Wars, we will also create a wider identity co-existing with existing national identities. Being a member of Federation no more threatens a Canadian or Australian identity than Canadian or Australian identity has threatened Ontarian or Queenslander identity.
We support the current efforts to achieve free movement and free trade among the CANZUK countries and believe they will be successful. However, this very success will create new issues which can best be resolved by moving toward a Canzuk Federation.Therefore, we will continue to support research into various options as to precisely how such a Federation might function, what its social, political, and economic implications might be, and how best to get from where nations are today, to our great goal.
We ask all who share our goal, or who would like to explore it as an option, to join our Canzuk Federationists Members' Network, and especially those who are citizens of the four aforementioned countries. If you would like to join us, please take less than two minutes to register on our 'Become a Member' page.