The spouter dismissing Canada as a close U.S. ally uses, as justification, events that go back over 200 years, but neglects to point out how much Canadian diplomats did during the 1979 crisis to smuggle American embassy personnel out through Canada's Tehran Embassy. Because of open, humanitarian policy of welcoming all political refugees, Canada also received hundreds of conscientious war objectors during the Vietnam fiasco. What other possible foreign country is always there for us?