Mr. MacNaughton seems an honourable man, but this is hard equivocation to swallow when he says, "“We shouldn’t shy away, either individually or collectively, from the values that we espouse as a nation....“I think Canadians expect us to show those values and articulate those values in anything we do on a multilateral basis. Having said that, it is really important also that when you’re playing on the world stage, the essential element of that is, is this in Canada’s interest to be doing that?”  ..... so, in other words, we get to feel noble about our values but must chicken out when it comes time to espouse them in situations where there may be pay a price?  Not so noble.