Yet peacekeeping appeals to Canadians. Only this country has raised them a monument. I mention peacekeepers to make two points. First, about the kind of causes Canadians will support. Second, that this country has a wealth of low-key leaders.
Peacekeepers are one example, volunteers are another.
I suspect we have the best volunteers in the world. Europe has nothing like the same phenomenon. Volunteers work for us in hospitals, in amateur theatre, in palliative care, in Scout and Guide groups, in food banks - they are everywhere, getting no pay except the satisfaction. Peacekeepers and volunteers reflect our national character. Whatever the exceptions, there is something to this business of national character.