The draft dodgers and other political émigrés always seemed American to me in their very rejection of American life and attitudes. They, after all, knew what they were repudiating far better than the people among whom they made a new life. Even if they learned to speak with a Canadian accent, their own preoccupation with the nation they had left was quite different from that of Canadian friends …
Bio:
CHRISTOPHER CLAUSEN, a longtime contributor to Queen’s Quarterly, has written several times about the complicated relationship between Canada and the United States.