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visitors from Canada would be welcome. Then on November 29, Hon. 

 John J. Connolly, the leader of the Government in the Canadian 

 Senate, wrote to Chairman Miller and other committee members, with 

 further material about the Senate investigation. Chairman Miller 

 answered in a thiee-page letter, inviting any Canadian Senate members 

 who wished to attend the January Panel, adding: 



I was most interested to learn of the appointment of a Science Committee in the 

 Canadian Senate. In the era of rapid technological change in which we find ourselves, 

 it is of paramount importance that legislative bodies maintain close oversight of 

 science in general as well as technological development. Science, public policy and 

 national economy are so inextricably woven together in the present day that careful 

 monitoring of scientific activities by all instruments of government is essential to 

 national progress. 



The committee shipped a set of hearings, reports and other docu- 

 ments relating to its work, thus enabling the Senate committee to get 

 the necessary guidance to undertake a much more thorough inquiry. 

 Not wishing to be upstaged on short notice by the executive branch, 

 the Canadian Senators decided the better course of action would be to 

 wait for a good opportunity to visit the Science Committee on their 

 own when the searchlight was directed squarely on the legislators 

 from the two countries. In response to a "feeler" concerning such a 

 meeting in Washington, Congressman Daddario answered positively 

 on March 26, 1968: 



I personally feel that it is very encouraging that other parliamentary bodies are 

 beginning to set up specialized groups in this field. It cannot help being beneficial, 

 as I view it, in the advancement of new means for assessing technology. And, as you 

 have stated, we consider this to be one of the most critical problems confronting us 

 as legislators. 



VISIT OF CANADIAN SENATORS 



Election year made it impossible to agree on a convenient meeting 

 time during 1968, but on May 8, 1969, 15 members of the Special 

 Committee on Science Policy of the Canadian Senate met with the 

 Daddario subcommittee. Chairman Miller reported enthusiastically 

 on the results, in an address to the House of Representatives on May 13: 



So far as is known this was the first meeting of its kind, although it was not a 

 formal proceeding of the Congress. 



The Canadian committee was headed by Chairman Maurice Lamontagne, of 

 Quebec, and met with the Science Subcommittee, headed by the gentleman from 

 Connecticut, Representative Daddario, and other members of the committee. 



The legislators of the two committees discussed a variety of mutual problems 

 as well as legislative mechanism for handling the great potentials and dangers posed by 

 a rapidly developing technology. I should like to emphasize my belief that, as this 

 meeting and our space efforts have shown, the unique character of science makes it a 

 useful tool for the assistance of diplomatic missions as well as for intrinsic merit. 



