I. A Fact Finding Mission to an All Together Different Country
“I really need to see your passport,”
the woman at Air Canada’s check-in counter at Washington’s Dulles
Airport insists. I don’t understand and suspect that having to show a
passport instead of an ordinary ID is a new harassment in a seemingly
endless line of innovative attempts at increasing security at American
airports. But then it occurs to me: flying to Ottawa means leaving the
U.S., because Canada is an all together different country, of course.
Living in the U.S., one tends to forget that. One also tends to
overlook the fact that despite the apparent similarities and the close
economic linkages between the two countries there are numerous and
substantial differences: Canada’s innovation system, in many regards
more similar to those of European countries, is one of them.
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