This article assesses the response of the Canadian government to the ongoing crisis in Darfur against the leadership expectations generated by Canada's role in instigating G8 action on Africa, and in championing the international "Responsibility to Protect." It concludes that, while Canada has met the test of international respectability and burden-sharing among its western peers, it has fallen short of the expectation of a leadership role to which its own previous statements and actions have given rise. Moreover, there are signs of a further retreat from these expectations ...

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