Thank you to:
Tim Rostron, editor at Doubleday Canada, for his diligence, cheer, patience and intelligence, who has been the shepherd of this enterprise, and who summons this slightly antique tribute to mind: A Man of Taste, to great applause, he read the daily news/ And kept a close acquaintance with the Muse.
Mark Harrison of CBC’s The National, a man of rare even-temper and fine judgment.
Alexandra Tomescu of The National, a woman of judicious mind and dauntless industry, who produced many of the Points of View included in this volume and gave very necessary assistance in the early trawl of columns and POVs.
The great mix of other people who, over the years at The National, have been involved in the various stages of producing Point of View.
Natasha Hassan of the Globe and Mail Comments section, another person of great cheer and intelligence, whose oversight of the weekly column is a model of discernment and benign scrutiny.
Bruce Westwood, my genial and efficacious agent.
Erin Cooper, the very able caricaturist, for the book’s cover and title page horror (it is, I acknowledge, kinder than a photograph), which has brought much amusement to coworkers and friends.
And my brother Tyrone, whose reserves of scorn and dudgeon so far superior, in volume and variety, to my own—a whole Alpine range of unslaked indignatio—leave me feeble with wonder and breathless from vain emulation.