Balanced budget
Sounds kind of like Dean bragging about balancing the budget of Vermont.
There are more people in California than all of Canada, and California's budget is over half as large as the entire Canadian budget. Can't find my article on "bedroom nations" right now, but look up what Canada spent over the past fifty years fighting the Cold War compared to the United States.
That being said, I will readily agree that Canada's overwhelming generosity to the tsunami victims (especially in light of the aforementioned population and budget numbers), like that of Australia and many other nations, should be commended.