À bien des égards, si le premier ministre Harper n'avait pas décidé de s'abstenir, il n'y aurait probablement pas eu autant de pressions sur le premier ministre Cameron au bout du compte, qui avait ses propres raisons de participer au sommet, en grande partie parce que le Royaume-Uni serait probablement le dernier pays à boycotter une réunion du Commonwealth.
In many respects, if Prime Minister Harper hadn't made his decision to stay away, there probably wouldn't have been as much pressure as there was on Prime Minister Cameron in the end, who had his own reasons for going, largely because the U.K. would probably be the last country to ever boycott a Commonwealth meeting.