l into this category. At the opposite extreme, a think tank may house several hundred economists, political scientists and statisticians who provide expertise on a broad range of issues. An example of a think tank is the Security and Defense forum whose mandate is to encourage training of Canadian experts on military and strategic issues, in order to respond to present and future security requirements and arouse a nationwide interest in these issues. The USA hold some of the largest think tanks in the world. Given the tremendous diversity of think tanks that exist in many advanced industrial countries, it is not surprising that scholars have consciously avoided trying to define these institutions. Indeed, other that acknowledging that think tanks are nonprofit, nonpartisan organizations engaged in the study of public policy, few scholars have outlined other criteria which would allow them to distinguish between think tanks and other types of nonprofit governmental nonprofit organizations including interest groups, religious movements and, trade unions which also seek to provide policy ad

Some common words found in the essay are:
Security Defense, , tanks canada, influence tanks, landscape canada tanks, landscape canada, policy process, canada tanks, advanced industrial, public policy, enhance status, particular policy,
Approximate Word count = 736
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)