Focus our study

"I also agree that when showing the percents we should not worry about what non-empirical classification we can put Canada in, like "middle" or "super" or "great" power. Just show some facts about GDP percents, people have a rough idea of the physical size of countries and they can decide for themselves weather they feel Canada should spend more or less it doesn't really matter weather or not Canada is different then the countries mentioned."

You make a really good point here. Jordan's method is a very valid one. I simply believed that we should inform and then question. Rather than question and not assume knowledge. People might very well know rough GDP figures themselves, especially if you did this at a large Canadian university. But I like Jackie's point that we can't classify Canada as a lowly - middle power. That is a stereotype. It's surely going to change in 50-100 years, no?