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A2 - Wednesday, December 8, 1982 - North Shore News

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Ren Sie

Correction

Canada’s non-culture

TODAY, I told myself firmly, you ‘re going to
write something about Canadian culture, eh?

It’s funny. My mind went
blank for the Jongest time.

Canadian culture.. now
what would that be?

If you're in Toronto, it’s an
odd sort of thing: Toronto is
often déscribed.as a cultural
satellite of New York City,
andIcanseethat. —

Falking with people in
New York definitely reminds

you of talking with people in
Toronto. They seem to talk
around an issue an awful lot.

There is also, in. Toronto,

tradition of accepting all
other traditions? It cannot
even be said to be an in-
digenous culture since the
lifestyle of native people has
been destroyed, not
adopted. -

Outside of Toronto,
Canadian perceptions break

quickly. down into regional,

ways of looking at the world.

I've. visited every corner of

this -country, and it's like
visiting a dozen different

lands.

a sense of being:a satellite,
period. You might as well be
whirling around in space, so
remote is the Toronto
perception, in many ways,
from the state of mind-to be
found out in the boonies. —

Yet even to talk about a
“Toronto “perception” — is
risky. Toronto itself breaks
down into a: fantastic pat-
chwork of cultural, racial
and linguistic enclaves.
Ghettoes, actually.

Travelling on the Toronto
subway, you can't help but
notice that the city is far
more ethnically mixed than
any other city in Canada,
even Montreal. In the jet
age, Toronto is the main
portal through which im-
migrants pass into the Great
White North.

This inevitably makes
Toronto much more
cosmopolitan than even
Vancouver. At the same
time, it renders the term
“Canadian . culture” almost
totally meaningless in the
Toronto context.

What tradition does
Canada have except the

In Tuktoyaktuk, it is hard

to believe you're in the same
country ‘as West Van. In St.
Anthony, Newfoundland,

‘you know you're not in the

same country. On Prince
Edward Island, people are so
inwardly-turned that they

even” know “whose-dogs- are -

related to each other.
Alberta is a_ different
world than Manitoba,
despite the. fact that they
exist on the opposite shores
of the same dead sea bot-

tom. Manitoba, for one.

thing, was part of the long
drawn-out struggle between
the French and the English,
whereas Alberta merely
inherited the spoils.

Saskatchewan — does it
really exist?

Maritimers strike me as
being: somewhat stuck in
their, past. A cab driver in

Halifax once bragged to me

about ‘how the British fleet
had: ‘defeated the French: in
such-and-such battle, as if it
still mattered.

And then, of course,
there’s the atavistic Newfie
obsession with the annual

seal bloodbath... which is
defended, by the way, as
part of the ‘province’s
“culture,” and therefore
presumably a part of the
Canadian cultural mosaic.
The regions ve men-
tioned so far — except for
the Northwest Territories,
which is-about.to split into
two distinct cultures’ of ‘its
own — are -all mainly
English-speaking. | .
Finally,.. there is the
gigantic chunk of the
Canadian cultural whole
which is Quebec.

Anybody who ‘does. not
speak French, yet claims to
understand Quebec culture,
is. surely a joker. And since
most of us outside of Quebec
don’t Speak French, the
goings-on in the region
between Ontario and

mysterious as Tibet to most
Canadians.

Canadian culture. I guess
I'm giad the _ federal
government blew $3 million
to produce the Applebaum-
Hebert report, which said
that Canadian culture was in
serious danger of dying

‘unless there is. a massive

infusion of funds into the
arts.

As a writer, I think that’s a
great idea. Point me to the
pork barrel.

But, really, the. only

Canadian culture I know of
is a tradition that says there

iS no tradition. and the only.

national identity I know is
that I’m not an American,
and not quite anything else.

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