States behaving morally

Apologies for flogging a dead horse, but after reading the following article about the Harper government's cover-up of Canadian complicity in the torture of Afghan detainees and its subsequent attempt to discredit and destroy the diplomat who made this public, even though the Conservatives passed a law in 2007 to protect whistleblowers, I thought of Norm's post from a couple of months ago about how Canada was providing a "moral lead" to the world.