anyone who, as McLuhan did, felt that he wanted 
something more than where he was. The two men 
were very, very different in that respect. There is 
certainly no one model of the Canadian that 
suggests that we all emerge as brilliant theorists 
of communications.

You know what I would add though, if you’re onto 
the Innis/McLuhan thing, what I would suggest is 
this. About the Canadian communications history 
tradition, what many scholars have done, is 
they’ve tried to separate Innis and McLuhan. What 
happened was after it was discovered that—I mean 
McLuhan made no secret of it, he celebrated in it—