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From: rgatkinson@watmum.UUCP
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: Status of R&D in Canada
Message-ID: <864@watmum.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 13-Mar-87 15:34:56 EST
Article-I.D.: watmum.864
Posted: Fri Mar 13 15:34:56 1987
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References: <3655@utai.UUCP> <3124@watdcsu.UUCP>
Reply-To: rgatkinson@watmum.UUCP (Robert Atkinson)
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In article <3124@watdcsu.UUCP> brewster@watdcsu.UUCP writes:
>>From: eem@utai.UUCP (Evangelos Milios)
>
>>1. Brain drain to the U.S.
>>2. Foreign-owned companies choose to perform R&D not in their Canadian 
>>subsidiaries but in the US.

>	Item 1 obviously occurs, but I think that the true cause of low
>	R&D in Canada is item 2; item 1 follows as a result of item 2.

And therin lies the rub.  I don't know about you, but I certainly see
a better future for myself south of the border.  A large fraction of
my immediate friends graduating with me feel the same way.  It's a 
vicious circle in some ways perhaps.  Pesonally, my choice was easy.

	-bob atkinson