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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