Although lots of folks have dined out on looking at the twists and turns in Canadian foreign policy everyone around this table will know Andrew Coyne's little piece on the clarity of contemporary Canadian policy the reality is, you could have easily gotten away with saying no, provided you had been up front, had laid it out as clearly as you possibly could, and had been consistent.
Même si certains se régalent des méandres de la politique étrangère canadienne—tout le monde ici connaît le morceau de bravoure d'Andrew Coyne sur la clarté de la politique canadienne contemporaine—il reste qu'on aurait pu aisément s'en sortir par un refus, à condition de l'exprimer directement, aussi clairement que possible et de façon constante.