The Metaphor of Dependency and Canadian Communications: The Legacy of Harold Innis

<jats:p> It is with some sense of lese-majeste and presumption that I a citizen of one of the old dominant metropoles, offer this critical engagement with Innis and his legacy to thinking about communications in Canada. I hope that my perspective as an outsider may be judged, in this instance, enabling rather than disabling . In constructing my own set of theoretical earthworks from behind which I can begin my sapping of the Innis redoubt I want to profit form the work of other outsiders to the Anglophone Canadian tradition. Gaetan Tremblay's skirmish with Innis in his review of the Melody, Salter, Heyer collection of 1981, Culture Communication and Dependency. The tradition of H. A. Innis in which he states of the collection: "L'ouverage, est trop exclusivement Canadien." </jats:p>