Comments from the New Editor

<jats:p> The CANADIAN JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION has grown over the past eight years as the discipline of Communication has developed in this country. The weaknesses of the Journal are, I believe, attributable to the weaknesses of the discipline of Communication in Canada. Our discipline is slowly developing in this country. Until three years ago there was no organization to give it focus or to bring us all together. Communication studies were being conducted under many rubrics with research being published in many different learned journals. If the Journal has had an identity crisis it is because there has been no single orientation which could focus the discipline in Canada. </jats:p>