"Canada is at best a middle power, but it has more sway in the United Nations and other international bodies than its population,its economy, or its strength would imply....Canada will go to great lengths to prevent embarrassment.
Except in very rare instances (such as the recent Canadian condemnation of Israel at the United Nations) Canada will not take a cause directly to international forums. It can be made to appear to support a cause, however, even without such direct intervention...
Israeli-Canadian diplomatic relations were severely weakend in the 1990s when Israel objected to Canada's hearing a number of Israeli refugee claims. This is in spite of the fact that, under Canadian law and International Agreement, Canada had no choice but to hear them. In an interesting mirror image of this process, a Canadian Indian activist recently embarrassed Canada by claiming and receiving political asylum in the United States."
This is what Mike said.
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