, buy a clue.We're on the same side, FRiends. Canada has had a CONSERVATIVE government for just over a year, and we've been kicking a** and taking names all over Ashcanistan since the games began.
Folks like you seem to enjoy complaining about how the USA has to do all this stuff alone, yet when your friend and neighbour is in the trenches with you eating the same dirt and killing the same sandmaggots, all you can do is denigrate and deride their contribution.
It's a small wonder why so few nations want to contribute when any effort to contribute to a common cause is belittled by the likes of you.
You should also know that there is a HUGE difference between knowing something is going on and lodging quiet diplomatic complaints and making a PUBLIC statement as Mr. MacKay did here. Often the backroom comment will get results, but this public comment is intended to provoke a reaction.