A:  I have concluded that there is a Canadian 
communications history tradition. And the key 
figures in this are Harold Innis and Marshall 
McLuhan. They each make quite distinctive 
contributions to the Canadian communications 
history tradition. I think there’re others who are 
associated with this, Eric Havelock, for example 
was at the University of Toronto at a certain key 
point and I think his work is very worth drawing 
into that. But as far as the key figures, we’re 
talking about Harold Innis and Marshall McLuhan. 
Many of McLuhan’s critics attempted to write him 
off as some derivative of Innis. I don’t believe that 
is the case. I think that each man contributed