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I think it is a good thing that our engineering students' training, to high standards, enables many of them to become consultants and clients in many countries. i do not regret that a Canadian education has enabled creative Canadian students to succeed in Adelaide, Paris, London, New York or Dublin. We should not emulate our own regionalists who insist that technical education in our declining regions should be specialised on fishing, logging, and other local trades rather than on those liberating skills that can carry young people to new lives in larger centres, or in Ontario or Quebec. The same is true in the social sciences. Young economists, political scientists and sociologists should not be condemned with their M.A.'s, and (continued from page 2) (which are not, in the small print, what they seem after all), the message of the Report is authoritarian and reactionary. Free citizens will reject it. But they will now find the task impeded by the strength and resources of the existing bureaucracy. As Donald Smiley writes in a recent Canadian Forum, the issue is now a very large one: "we must destroy the monolithic nature of provincial systems of public education," and just at the point when they are accumulating their greatest power. The Wright Report is only the most recent and blatant illustration of the truth of Professor Smiley's judgements that "In no area of activity are the requirements of bureaucratization and rationalization less compelling than in education, and in no part of our Canadian life have these been pressed with so little resistance." The resistance must begin; the course of opposition must be subtle and prolonged. D.S. 64 Ph.D.'s, to minding the Canadian shop. My use of the word "market" therefore merely attempted to recognise that our students claim, and deserve, an education that is widely recognised, one that will enable them to compete with others for rewarding or interesting work in other countries, not only in the United States, but also in Europe, in international agencies, in journalism, and in the service of the less developed countries. Thus higher education must serve both students and the Canadian nation. If keeping both objectives in sight must be defined as "ambivalence" so be it. Students' lives and careers are fully as important as filling the gaps in our national self-awareness. Anthony D. Scott Notes Professor Michael J. Sidnell is a member of the English Department in Trinity College, University of Toronto. Alex I Inglis is Research Associate in the School of International Affairs. Carleton University . John A. Munro is a member of the Historical Section of the Department of External Affairs in Ottawa. The Rt. Hon. L. B. Pearson, former Prime Minister of Canada, is the first Chairman of the Board of Governors of the International Development Research Centre in Ottawa. He has recently been appointed a member of the Order of Merit by Her Majesty The Queen. Professor H. A. Morton is with the Department of History at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand. Trevor Denton is a member of the Department of Sociology and Urban Studies Institute at Brock University. Revue d'etudes canadiennes ...