Visions of Canada

The Plaunt lectures began in 1958 as a memorial to Alan B Plaunt, one of the pioneers of Canadian broadcasting. They present an unusual retrospective of persistent themes in public discourse in Canada. Dealing with the lectures, this volume demonstrates the continuity of certain themes in the search to define who and what we were and should be.More than 20 public intellectuals provide their unique vision of Canada from the perspectives of the arts, sciences, economics, politics, and foreign relations.