A:  I think he was a good Canadian. Just on a 
practical level I think he enjoyed living in Toronto 
and teaching at the University of Toronto, and I 
think that a lot of his examples and associations 
were Canadian examples. I think particularly his 
view of American television, through in a sense the 
Buffalo filter, was very important to understand. 
His understanding of the global village I’m sure 
begins with crime reports from Tonawanda—he 
got that kind of knight’s move distance from the 
American media that all Canadians, or all thinking 
Canadians automatically get or used to get when 
they tuned in, and I think that’s actually a crucial 
element.