I write this as the proud parent of 5 kids who all went to higher education. But I also write this as one involved for many years in high technology for both civil and military industries. I do not think that the answer mostly lies with how  we raise our kids. The author fails to mention that far too many of our top graduates go to work in the US. Why? In part because the US understood a long time ago that it could not behave as a colony and that to thrive in a world of nation-states, you necessarily need to elbow in your way. Hence, this notion permeates the US society and the US government, contrary to what quite a few Canadians believe, is highly interventionist. The best example of this is the Bombardier saga. I have great difficulty to imagine that any US administration would not have stepped in way before to seek better governance and look at how to avoid the loss of a sovereign industrial capability. And what about Nortel? What did our leaders do to shape a better outcome?