I knew that Canada has had a consular agreement with Australia for years and recently signed a similar agreement with the United Kingdom and I wanted to learn more about it. Apparently, under the Canadian-Australian agreement there are no Canadian officers in the Embassy/High Commission of Australia whereas as under the Canadian-British agreement each side has its own officer in the other country's building. I do not believe that the Australian-Canadian agreement is a good one since the decision to help a Canadian overseas or a person wanting to visit Canada is made by a non-Canadian. That is a loss of sovereignty on the part of Canada.
Canadians needing consular assistance in the following countries/territories need to go to the Embassy/High Commission of Australia:
- American Samoa, Burma, Cambodia, East Timor, French Polynesia, Kiribati, Laos, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, New Caledonia, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, the Solomon Islands, Tonga and Vanuatu.
Canadians needing consular assistance in the following countries/territories need to go to the Embassy/High Commission of the United Kingdom:
- Bosnia and Herzegovina and Gambia
Canadians needing consular assistance in North Korea need to go to the Embassy of Sweden. (I don't know what is in the Canadian-Swedish agreement.)
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