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Q: Do you feel the fact that these two
communication greats came from Canada stems
from the reality that this is a huge country in
which communication is crucial?
A: In a sense, that question is unanswerable in the
end. My take is that it matters very much that
Innis and McLuhan came from Canada, very much.
But I think we have to look at them in slightly
different ways, because they were very different
figures. Innis, for example, grew up in a rural
environment that was more oral than most
environments, although very similar to what one
could have encountered in the United States. Innis