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INTERNATIONAL
No Manpower Problems Canada has no shortage of technically trained, say: finance minister; needs greater facilities in future I F M E T with intelligence, resourcefulness, and vigor, Canada's manpower problems are manageable," says the Canadian Minister of Finance, C. D. Howe. Expressing this view in an address "The Engineer and t h e Scientist," before a recent conference of Canadian industrialists and educators, Howe states that attention should b e given to a better and more efficient use of "the engineers we are producing and have in our midst." And to meet future needs, Howe says the universities should be supplied with greater facilities in buildings and staff. According to Howe, the subject of a shortage of engineers in Canada, and how this shortage is holding back economic progress, jeopardizing the national security, and encouraging Canadian professional personnel to move to the U. S., "has become so filled with emotion" that the real issues involved are clouded. Some of Howe's main points are:
search, and for employment generally, with pay scales as a rule being higher than those in Canada. Something like 500 Canadian engineers have been finding jobs in the U. S. annually over the past several years. B u t in turn w e have had American engineers coming to Canada, as well as a number of Canadians returning h o m e . " Howe also says t h a t C a n a d a has h a d a heavy movement of engineers from the U. K. and other Western European countries. Thus, "for every technically trained person who has left Canada for the U. S. in this period, three h a v e come to Canada to take his place." In discussing the future, Howe says there is a growing recognition t h a t Canada cannot afford to remain wholly dependent on results of research a n d scientific work done abroad.
Howe feels that
