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Looking At Canada
This book is intended for that abstraction, the Australian general reader: specifically, the person who tunes in to the ABC's 'Notes on the News' and occasionally writes to a commentator to tell him why he is right or wrong; who occasionally attends adult education classes or discussion groups on international affairs. He (and she) is an exacting reader to try to satisfy. He catches you out when you are wrong: and he insists on being kept awake and interested, even entertained. But this reader and I, I like to think, are by now old friends, and while he keeps me up to the mark, I hope he forgives me for my lapses.
This book is based to some extent on my own observation, as a person born in Canada and a university teacher of politics; I lived in Canada until the age of thirty-five and have revisited it regularly since coming to settle in Australia in 1960. I have tried to convey, as vividly as possible, an impression of a whole country to readers who do not know it well. This aim is difficult to achieve: it is for the reader to judge whether it has been attained; at least attempting it has been a pleasure. Of the many debts incurred, not all are acknow ledged in the text, the footnotes and the bibliographies at the ends of chapters, although acknowledgement has been given wherever the borrowing amounted to more than a fact or two. It could be said that what is good in this book is not new: I hope it will not also be said that what is new is not good. There is a considerable risk of mistakes when one attempts to write in a short time on diverse
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