We published “Mobilizing the Will to Intervene”, out of the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies, and the Americans in fact adopted part of those recommendations.
The first premise is the recognition that a nation such as ours has a responsibility to protect, fundamentally as being our national ethos. It's not as though we can just look inward and take care of ourselves. There is a nature of our beast that is holding us accountable to the world.
In regard to that seat on the Security Council, the developing countries were madder than we were about the fact that we weren't sitting there as that bridge. As we're doing between military and humanitarians on child soldiers, we were a bridge between the big guys and the other ones and brought innovative ideas and approaches, and that reinforces the pride and the presence of Canadians around the world.