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I don't know how much other CASLL-ers would want to generalize (and certainly it wouldn't be pleasant to get into an "us-and-them" sort of dualistic contrast -- especially since some of them are us, and vice versa, and I'm from another country anyway). I have certainly felt at many 4Cs conferences that the Canadian contingent, or should I say Inkshed goup, had a set of contexts and principles in their minds that were extremely different from many of the US participants. Perhaps much has to do with the huge diversity in Canadian ways of teaching writing -- there are almost no "norms" (such as massive first year comp courses) that can be taken for granted, which may lead to a particular kind of watchfulness and, I hope, openness. Ann Beer