Montreal Gazette - Opinion: Canada's new lustre in the world

(Adam Daifallah, partner at Hatley Strategies and a lecturer at McGill’s Department of North American Studies): "...Making fun of Canada has long been a U.S. national pastime. Recall the contest held by Michael Kinsley, then editor of the New Republic, to find the world’s most boring headline. The winner? “Worthwhile Canadian Initiative.”

As recently as 2006, Goldberg, writing again about Canada, called us “arguably the most deluded” industrialized nation in the world” because “elite Canadians” think “being different than the U.S. and sucking up to the United Nations will buy them grace on the cheap.” Today, no one is laughing at the Great White North – especially Americans – and certainly no one would accuse the Harper government of kowtowing to the UN…"