Harper was very well liked by foreign leaders and was held in very high regard. He simply wasn't a showboat celebrity like Trudeau. Harper was subtance not style. He guided this country admirably through the great crash of 2008 and put us at the top of the G7 and for that he was held in high esteem. He also did not pander to the pointless UN which rubbed some like you, Banister, the wrong way but he wasn't going to be bamboozled by the pull of a career there at the end of his political career as is Trudeau.