Yes, really.
I'm very lucky because I get to travel a lot around the world and spend time with people, from street children to leaders in countries.
We are doing something special in Canada that people look up to. I'm not talking about money. I find that what we're trying to build in Canada constantly, for all of our imperfections, is something that many other countries look at. They scratch their heads and they're wondering.
I was working once in Brazzaville, Congo. There was a war going on, but they were asking a couple of members of Parliament to go there to talk about how we run our country. They wanted to learn.
I think we bring a diversity here. I don't know how we export it, but I think we model it a lot in our behaviour. There are more things we can do. You would know much better than I do because you're closer to the levers of power. But there is something we do when we're out there as Canadians.
When I was with Médecins Sans Frontières, sometimes when there were disagreements in the teams they would call us up and say, “Can we just have a Canadian?” It wouldn't matter if it was a francophone, an anglophone, or an allophone. You didn't even have to be born here; usually if you went to school here.... There's something we do that's good. I think there's that kind of leadership.
I would like us to take a bigger leadership in the United Nations, but I think that's a place where I see it happening around the world.