Not enough credit...

Paul Martin hasn't received enough credit for changing Canada's voting patterns at the United Nations...

This article is just one more example of the improvement in Canada's standing on the world stage.

Canada stood alone with Australia and America (not even Britain! - I guess Tony Blair doesn't want to take any risks during an election campaign) to protest the election of Zimbabwe to the United Nations human rights commission.

The UN's high commissioner on Human Rights, a former Canadian Supreme Court Justice was in the news recently, talking about how ineffective and hypocritical the human rights commission really is.

The recent foreign policy statement stressed the need for UN reform...

Canada's voting pattern in regards to the Israeli/Palistinean situation has moved from always abstaining to actually voting "Yes" or "No" on important issues and often standing alone with the United States and a small number of other countries in doing so.

So yeah, good job to Paul Martin. He might be an unprincipled leader and he's probably completely insincere in his support of an NDP budget, but at least he gets some things right. Right?