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From: acton@mprvaxa.UUCP
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: Status of R&D in Canada
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Date: Wed, 18-Mar-87 10:42:13 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 18 10:42:13 1987
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Reply-To: acton@mprvaxa.UUCP (Don Acton)
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In article <3139@watdcsu.UUCP> brewster@watdcsu.UUCP (Dave Brewer, SysDesEng, PAMI, UWaterloo) writes:
>	Ever since the success of Silicon Valley and Route 128 it has generally
>	been held that high-tech development requires a fairly specific infra-
>	structure.  This usually includes a set of appropriate support 
>	companies, associated universities or think-tanks, well developed 
>	cultural environment (plays, theatre, etc), and pleasant living 
>	environment (schools, shopping facilities, open spaces, etc.)
>	All four items can be found in Ottawa and Toronto (and Waterloo??),
>	and this is not true of White Rock or Sarnia.

From your last statement it is fairly obvious that you have never been to 
White Rock which is less than a 35 minute drive from Vancouver and is even 
closer to other Vancouver suburbs. I spend a lot of time in the White Rock 
area and it sure has Toronto and Ottawa beat for a pleasant living environment.
As to the other areas of a cultural environment etc you are making a comment
on the Vancouver area, or for that matter any large metropolitan area 
in general, and that has more to do with ones own personal view on these sorts
of things then any real difference in what is available. As an example
of this cultural feast we can both go and watch last place hockey teams
in action. However, I think that in Canada research takes place where it
is easiest to get money and government contracts. That just happens to
be a lot easier to do from Ottawa and Toronto then from any place else
in the country. 

  Donald Acton