Canada’s publishing industry, nurtured over three decades to relative financial competence by modest government subsidies despite the inherent economy-of-scale disadvantages, is now being asked to suck hard on the tailpipe of GATT and other toxic globalization apparatuses expressly designed to exterminate indigenous cultural instruments. Now, we all know that house cats don’t turn into tigers, but one of the essential tests to see whether Canada deserves to go on being a real country will be whether Canada’s publishers can fight off the subsidy cuts and the playing-field leveling devices of globalization-crazed governments.