Here you can see, as you have seen before, a photograph of my car parked in front of the Confederation Bridge, which connects Prince Edward Island to the Canadian mainland. You might remember from Beverly Diamond's ethnography of island fiddlers that the construction of the bridge was a disputed topic. Industry and business representatives saw increased traffic as a boon to the local economy, while environmentalists and local residents feared that a permanent connection to the rest of the country would trigger an inevitable loss of local ways of life to a homogenous, global consumer culture.