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Bully for us, that’s terrific! We have a vantage
point. As the outsider, a particularly great vantage
point, where we can see things freshly, where
Americans sometimes can’t see, because they have
their identity—which is as much of a straight
jacket as it is an advantage. I think the people who
are carried on McLuhan’s mantle in terms of
Canadian Canadians are the people like Second
City Television who do all these parodies about
television, and somebody like Martin Short, or some
of those Canadians who go down there and cut a
huge swath through American media. I think they
are a little freer in their approach. Wasn’t the
creator of Saturday Night Live a Canadian? I’m not