text: I assume the laudatory assessments in the foreign media means the UK Guardian.  Perhaps Al Jazeera and whatever the daily in Davos is.
  
  I strongly doubt he has re-fashioned Canada's global image simply because Canada does not interest a global audience.  For those who do care about Canada, he has definitely cut us away from our closet allies and returned us to our position as the so-called honest broker for the third tier nations but who wants to be a useful contributor to the first world when you can get all that adoration from the third?  It costs less and looks great on Instagam and, even better, it helps prop up that Millennial constituency that needs to be kept from noticing that its future is being wiped out by ill-conceived Keynesian tribute budgets.