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the Medical Research Council and the Agricultural Research Council.
These are all directly or indirectly controlled by the Government and
work in collaboration with the research departments of private enterprises.

I come to Canada. If you go to Ottawa you will see an exceedingly
handsome new building above the Ottawa river, not very
far from Government House. That is the National Research Council
which came of age two years ago. Its laboratories and its staff deal
with practically every branch of applied scienc. It is organised
in six main divisions - administration, research information,
mechanical engineering, physics and electrical engineering, chemistry,
biology, and agriculture. Like its British counterpart, it works in
close collaboration with big industrial corporations who bring to it
their problems and assist in working them out. Its staff is just
over two hundred men and women, of whom eighty-nine are university
graduates. The Council also assists in the different universities
special lines of research of which it approves. It is well worth
the while of any of you next time you go to Ottawa, to pay a visit
to the National Research Council. You will find it a hive of fascinating
activities, and you will learn more in an afternoon there about
the real prospects of our country than you will from a year of
speeches or newspaper articles.

A government activity has of course ultimately the taxes
to fall back upon, and it is not considered as a profit-making business
in the ordinary sense. But if the books of our research departments
here and in Britain were kept in such a way as to show the
real profit accruing from their work, there would be a very big