[1] Other than Massey, the commissioners included social scientist Georges-Henri Lévesque, historian Hilda Neatby, university president Norman MacKenzie, and engineer Arthur Surveyor, co-founder of SNC-Lavalin.
It advised that Canada's international identity needed building up, and must be based on more than political and economic factors.
It called for more money for universities and strengthening existing public radio system, and its expansion into television.
[2] The government accepted the recommendations on university funding and strengthening the CBC; otherwise it largely ignored the report.
[3] ... the literature of the United States, which in the last thirty years has acquired an increasing international reputation, exercises an impact which is beneficial in many respects no doubt, but which, at the same time, may be almost overpowering.