According to a recent Statistics Canada report, about 27% of those who graduated with a PhD in Canada in 2005 left the country after finishing their programs. In an interview with University World News, Dr. Douglas Peers, former president of the Canadian Association for Graduate Studies, discusses potential positive impacts of Canada-US migration of PhD graduates:
"Most of those going to the US were going for post-docs, which is not necessarily a bad thing," Peers explained. "Particularly if they've been doing most of their research in Canada, it's not a bad thing to get more experience abroad."
Peers called what is happening a 'brain chain', where diverse and multicultural research experiences are valued. "What we want to talk about is a brain chain which encourages people to move in between large and increasingly complicated research networks," said Peers. "Having people move around is important because you don't want to become isolated, particularly when so much of the really important research nowadays is truly universal in scope."
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