Yes, I think there is a disconnect, in the sense that for much of our national story, we refer to ourselves as the peacekeepers of the world. Canada used to provide 60% of the world's peacekeepers, and the last time I checked, there were 40 Canadian peacekeepers out of 120,000 peacekeepers on the planet. We're definitely not where we like to think we are.
Recently the French ambassador came out in the National Post and called us on it. He said we weren't present in peacekeeping the way that one of our closest allies was expecting us to be. He also went so far as to say that we were trying to hitch a first-class ride using a third-class ticket.
I think there's something there to be said. The French ambassador is saying this out loud. In my job, I meet with a lot of military attachés—our allies—and some of our ambassadors, and this is the kind of stuff that you hear all the time in camera.
What we heard from the French ambassador last week is just saying out loud what a lot of other people are thinking.