Um...you keep referring to the late nineties. Are you stuck in the past? Never mind, I'll just include the nineties too. Hey, didn't you recently return from the US? Why was that?
There is actually a fair bit of evidence that the CD Howe Institute (not exactly an unbiased source) started the whole brain-drain mythology to try to force tax cuts for corporations. They diddled the numbers and excluded the fact that we also have educated people immigrating to Canada. Never mind that either though, let's just look at links.
From CBC
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But new funding and cutting-edge research may be drawing some scientists home. Martin Worton, working on genetic research at The Ottawa Research Institute, says when he hired his staff three years ago, he couldn't believe his luck. "I think there was a bit of a build-up out there, of people wanting to come back to Canada."
StatsCan$1:
The number of master's and doctoral graduates alone entering Canada from the rest of the world is equal to the number of university graduates at all levels leaving Canada for the United States.
The Scientist$1:
The latest recruitment announcement by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)—featuring four researchers from the United States, as well as others from Germany, Switzerland, and Belgium—is one more sign that Canada has begun to reverse its brain drain, say Canadian officials, capitalizing on the increasing attractiveness of the country to scientists and the perception that the United States presents too many roadblocks for certain kinds of research.
Straight Goods...Analyze This$1:
Canada's "Brain Drain" a trickle not a flood
Policy Alternatives$1:
Those calling for tax cuts for upper-income earners have found a new cause. For the past year, media reports, newspaper columnists and "think tank" studies have all been sounding the alarm. The latest catch-phrase of the neo-conservative project: the Brain Drain.
It's the perfect campaign, really. Rather than appearing self-serving, the brain drain scare allows tax cut crusaders to cast themselves as defenders of the national interest, desperately trying to convince politicians to lower taxes for the well-to-do, or watch as the "best and brightest" minds head south. But is the so-called brain drain a reality? And for those who are leaving, are taxes the reason?
Here's what we know. There is at the moment a small net outflow of university-educated people moving from Canada to the United States. However, according to an October 1998 Statistics Canada study, international immigration of university-educated people into Canada -- a "brain gain" -- is at least four times larger than the "brain drain" to the U.S.
The numbers don't bear you out, Godz. They didn;t even work before Bush came to office and started scaring people away. You've been brain-washed into believing in the brain-drain because you are too brain-dead to do research with your brain.
Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out, buddy.
thirdeye , before making a blanket statement of blame.
