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students require, and the result is that a considerable portion of those so 

 lured away have not returned to the Dominion and fill positions of 

 distinction in American universities artd in the Research Laboratories 

 provided by industrial firms in the United States for their own needs. 



"What is immediately necessary is an earnest and sustained effort 

 to provide courses in research in universities of Canada which will attract 

 students to them and permit them to receive the training which a career 

 in research demands. For the next few years at least one hundred 

 graduates annually should complete such a training in order eventually 

 to overtake the demand for researchers which will develop in the immedi- 

 ate future. If the National Research Institute is founded, and there is 

 a prospect of this during the next Parliamentary session, at least a staff 

 of four hundred or five hundred researchers will be required, and if they 

 are not trained in Canada, or if Canadians do not receive such training 

 either in Canada or the United States, the staff may be composed, in 

 large part, of qualified men imported from abroad. The industries in 

 Canada in the near future will also require scientific researchers to staff 

 the Research Laboratories of the Trade Guilds for research which will 

 be more or less in association with the proposed National Research 

 Institute. If such researchers are not trained in Canada they also must 

 be imported, an undesirable contingency and to be justified only on the 

 plea of necessity." 



Ladies and gentlemen, that is a perfectly plain, straightforward, 

 businesslike statement of the needs of Canada as far as the human 

 element is concerned. Knowing Canada as well as I do, I am confident 

 that the laboratories, with the necessary equipment and apparatus, will 

 be forthcoming supplied either by public funds or through the generous 

 impulse of individuals. With regard to obtaining the trained men I 

 have no immediate solution to offer. I have no doubt, however, as to 

 the ultimate result. 



May this be my message to you, to the members of the Royal Can- 

 adian Institute, the oldest institution for the promotion of science in the 

 Dominion of Canada. Your record is one of which you have the fullest 

 reason to be proud. You have already accomplished great things and 

 the success and conquests you have achieved in the past will, I know, be 

 an inducement to you to make further efforts in the future. It would 

 not be fair, however, it would not be right, that the solution of a problem, 

 which goes to the very heart of our existence, should be thrown upon 

 you alone. The experiences of war and peace times combine to show 

 that no nation can continue to live which does not train its men and 

 women to use to the greatest advantage those resources with which it 

 has been blessed. Our task in Canada to-day is to train our young 



