[Technogeeb]

They got many of our embassy people out of Iran during the Hostage Crisis

This was really a CIA operation, not a canadian one (the CIA disguised the American citizens to be "hollywood" types interested in shooting a positive documentary on the Iranian students). Canada was given credit to keep from blowing the cover of our operatives (still in Iran, and who might try the same tactic again since it worked so well the first time).

[Caesar Soze]

FWIW, the Canadians were keeping those diplomats in their embassy, and they did provide the passports to get them out.

[I_dmc]

I suspect that many "Canadians" in the world are operatives of some other government. Canada is well thought of in many more places than America.