As noted, Christina McCall wrote a piece "How Mel Watkins brought socialism to the NDP", sympathetically written in the age of nationalism, and obviously included by husband Stephen Clarkson, liberal, in a jibe at New Democrats - since Watkins was banned from the party as a Waffle leader.

Today, Mel Watkins appears again in The Globe and Mail's lead letter to the editor. "Not since the heady days of left natiionalism in the 1960s and 1970s has one read such compelling statements of the abject dependency of Canada on the U.S. as those of Jeffrey Simson...and Michael Kergin and Allan Gotlieb."

"Canada's elite," writes Watkins, continue to sell out "Canadian sovereignty and morality."

But Watkins is not anti-American: "It is vastly discouraging to see the election of an American president who is a breath of fresh air after decades of staleness being seen as simply a challenge for Canada," he concludes.

One wonders how McCall would respond to Canada's political situation today.  Sure like to see an article on Stephen Clarkson's views on the Liberal Party of Canada - not a tome, just a little retrospective by a top-notch journalist like his late partner.