The U.S. is shrugging off its role as leader of the free world, Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland said Tuesday, and forcing Canada and others to pick up the slack.

“We observe that Americans — and I am talking also about regular people, the people who vote — are starting to say, ‘You know what? Maybe that mantle of leadership is too heavy for us. Maybe we are not so ready to keep on doing it,'” Freeland said at a forum hosted by the Council on Foreign Relations in New York Tuesday.