what canada earned was respect. it earned respect by dying in huge numbers for what was right and then refusing to be bellicose about it, and by trying to chart a direction in life that had some twinge of real decency. we were the real good guys. the world noticed.
it only really changed in the 00s due to some realpolitik decisions that, in hindsight, were clearly mistakes.
we can undo this and should, but we can't turn the clocks back and we need to work hard to rebuild the respect that we lost under stephen harper and justin trudeau.