ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the glocal city in Canadian literature. It begins by positing that postcolonial criticism cannot be ahistorical or apolitical if it is to render authors and texts just intelligence. In his witty, jocular, and cheery discussion of 'the James Bond epic', British writer and journalist Sinclair McKay discusses the film Quantum of Solace and comments, of its denouement involving a Canuck agent, 'One hears so little of Canadian spies; how nice for them to get a second or two in the sunshine'. But Quantum of Solace is not the only Fleming adventure fiction to cite Canadians. Indeed, in Goldfinger, it is in his guise as a broker for 'an English holding in a Canadian Natural Gas property' that Bond encounters the deadly Auric Goldfinger. Nevertheless, sensible is surprise at the apparition of Canada, Canadians, and Canadian sites in Fleming's wham-bam-bam-thank-ya-ma'am fiction.
