CANADA'S CLIMATIC STIMULUS
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—In your issue for September 25th in an editorial on the Canadian elections I notice two statements which surprise me. One is : " Finally she (Canada) has got a climate which, though it looks as if it halved mankind's working capacity, is nevertheless," &e. The other is " Only in the matter of ice-closed ports is Canada a meteorological sufferer." It is a new idea to me who was born in Eastern Canada and have lived in Western Canada a quarter-century, that Canada's climate halves her people's working capacity. . The trouble in the West at least is that it doubles one's working capacity— through the stimulus due to altitude and the ozonic character Of the atmosphere.
As for ice-closed ports—only one is ,closed in winter Montreal. Halifax, St. John and Vancouver are wide open.
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