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Speaker 1: Some insight intwhy Canterbury's you post a region for getting

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Speaker 1: ahead in this country. They've released a private sector led

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Speaker 1: ambition plan sets priorities around infrastructure, housing and cutting red tape.

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Speaker 1: Leahn Watson's the Business Canterbury ceowned she's with us Lee

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Speaker 1: and good morning.

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Speaker 2: Good morning.

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Speaker 1: Is this doable and real or sort of an exercise

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Speaker 1: and embarrassing central government because they can't get their BacT

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Speaker 1: together and you just want to get on with life.

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Speaker 2: That this is very much doable and actually we're doing

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Speaker 2: it right now. Can it reas the powerhouse of the

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Speaker 2: New Zealand economy and what we want to make sure

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Speaker 2: is that becomes enduring. So this ambition is a sheared

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Speaker 2: vision and as you said, it is led by the

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Speaker 2: private sector which is the important part, and supported by

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Speaker 2: local government. It really seeks to unlock the confidence and

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Speaker 2: that momentum and make it very clear to both local

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Speaker 2: and central government the types of I guess, interventions and

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Speaker 2: support that we need to continue to make sure that

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Speaker 2: we can grow. And you know those are those things

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Speaker 2: that you mentioned.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, is there a cohesive view locally? Is there more

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Speaker 1: coordination required locally to make this all happen?

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Speaker 2: No, that's actually the beauty of this. So we have

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Speaker 2: been working on this for about eighteen months and it

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Speaker 2: sounds like a long time. But when you have to

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Speaker 2: get together eleven local authorities CEOs, mayors and economic development

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Speaker 2: agencies and the private sector to all come together to

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Speaker 2: agreed on a sheed vision, that takes some time, and

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Speaker 2: that's exactly what we've done. So this is very much

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Speaker 2: backed and supported by those eleven local authorities and the

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Speaker 2: private sector are right on behind it as well, which

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Speaker 2: is fantastic.

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Speaker 1: Good a central government aware of this and do they

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Speaker 1: like it?

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Speaker 2: Yes, they are aware of it. I've been in many

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Speaker 2: administers ease for quite some time about it, and I

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Speaker 2: think one of the things that is important is that

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Speaker 2: this is the Canty region as a whole approaching the

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Speaker 2: government with that unified sheed vision, rather than ashburt and

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Speaker 2: wanting something and Clacorda wanting something else. And that's what

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Speaker 2: the government had been after for quite some time, a

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Speaker 2: sheared vision across the region, rather than independent local authorities

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Speaker 2: making those approaches. Those districts will continue to obviously have

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Speaker 2: their own economic development strategies, but this is about having

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Speaker 2: that shared vision and everyone agreeing that this is what

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Speaker 2: we need. We need to invest a head of demand

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Speaker 2: for infrastructure, particularly around things like energy and connectivity. You know,

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Speaker 2: we need to protect and enhance our competitive advantage in housing,

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Speaker 2: affordability and lifestyle and lifestyle innovation and the environment coming together.

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Speaker 2: That's really part of the key focus of this ambition.

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Speaker 2: Those are the things that make Canterbury unique and those

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Speaker 2: are the things that we want to protect and enhance.

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Speaker 1: Boomchuck A like a well done, Lian Watson. That's how

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Speaker 1: it's done business, Canterbury CEO see success leads to success.

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