What is Canada's Idenity

This piece by Andrew COHEN in the Edmonton JOURNAL was passed on to me yesterday, and I couldn't agree more with it's main thesis.

But [must] learn how to leverage ideas and experience, such as our history of liberal internationalism. We can embrace--and sell--an idea of ourselves as the good-governance nation, for example. That would mean, among other roles, keeping the peace, building federalism, writing codes of conduct, monitoring elections and encouraging mediation.

Let's drop the Tim Horton idea.