Canada has an excellent reputation for its humanitarian work internationally, but it's mostly due to the efforts that Canada puts into the United Nations humanitarian efforts, coordination, and so on, and through its NGOs. Nationally, it may be different because of the images that you see, but very few people internationally and within the humanitarian system and the community see the Canadian military efforts as a significant contribution, and universal judgment within the civilian humanitarian community is that they are extremely expensive. The U.S. cost is 40%, when the military implements humanitarian activity.
On May 11th, 2010. See this statement in context.