That's a good question.
I think the argument about American soft power on the decline needs to be questioned a bit. In fact, in terms of the response to Mr. McMaster and Mr. Cohen's denial of there being a global community and the rise of an administration that has indeed called into question the American-led liberal international order of the last 70 years, it seems to me that this response of the international community strongly suggests that American soft power is absolutely still there, and that it is the desire—the strong desire—of so many countries and peoples that the United States continue to exercise global leadership that reflects that soft power. It seems to me that, as Colin said, when this shifts—because I think it is going to shift—we are going to see the return of that soft power, which continues to exist.
Canada's role in the interim, it seems to me, is to try to provide leadership with other like-minded powers, in particular the Europeans in NATO. Also, we need to look to the Asia-Pacific in a way that we generally as Canadians tend not to do: by looking at like-minded powers across the Pacific, notably the Republic of Korea, Australia, New Zealand and others, in particular Japan, to ensure that, in a sense, the elements of the American-led global order are managed in a kind of caretaker way until we see an end to the kind of nativist, isolationist, America-first perspective that is currently being articulated by the President of the United States.
It really needs to be stressed that it's the President articulating this. If you listen to the so-called adults in the room, as they're called in Washington—Mr. Mattis, Mr. McMaster, and even Mr. Tillerson—what you find is essentially a willingness to continue the American global leadership of the last 70 years. The problem is that there's a huge disjuncture between what the adults are saying and what Mr. Trump and some of his advisers, such as Stephen Bannon, are saying on the other hand.