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Totally agree with what I underlined and plants don't only include production plants but also development and design offices (so you can think R&D and product development, method development etc.). You'd be surprised though, that a lack of sole production plants actually leads to a lack of development offices because if you have nothing to produce then you have nothing to develop. In my country, which is a silly third-world country, STEM fellas could work in great projects in many areas of science and engineering (pay is shit though), we have such a variety here.I must ask though from an economic standpoint, why would you want to have the operations and plants in Canada? Typical semiconductors plants are operated at a ratio of 1:10 to 1:25, 1 engineer and 10-25 technicians / operators manning the machines. These "techs" and "operators" normally only have vocational courses or high school degrees, since they don't normally need a college degree to do what they need to do. If an engineer in this field would pursue an advanced degree it's usually in less technical areas like MS management, optimization, at least with what I have observed.
In contrast, R&D centers, have populations entirely made up of engineers, with only a handful of techs to support manual labor stuff. R&D folks needs a bare minimum of BS degree, and if they pursue advance degrees it's usually a technical degree like MS engineering.
Anyway going back, I think what Canada has to do is to startup more R&D, or attract the R&D centers from other areas like Silicon Valley into it's place. I'd rather see Apple opening up an Apple Campus that develops next generation HW/SW in Canada, than a manufacturing plant for Mac/iPhones. They can keep that in China, or Texas, or wherever they're doing it right now.