Canada is to fight this war mostly at home. Prime Minister Mackenzie King realizes it and has told his people so, Canada was a recruiting office in the last war. In this one she is to be a flying field, a factory, a granary, perhaps a shipyard and certainly a bank.
She is to put at least 15,000 Empire airmen through their final training every year of the war. She is to build airports for them to fly from, aeroplanes for them to fly in, to make shells and motor cars, smaller naval vessels immediately and larger ones eventually. She is to furnish most of the men who will man the aeroplanes and the ships. She is to finance "these operations herself—for she cannot raise loans in the United States—but Great Britain in the beginning will furnish most of the aeroplanes and Australia and New Zealand will reimburse her for the cost óf training their pilots.
Last and least of the demands made upon her has been for an expeditionary force. That there is to be one in France reflects the desires of the Canadian public rather than of the British War Office. The War Office would have been satisfied with Canadian airmen, engineers, mechanics and doctors for service in France. factories produce gas Her artilleryman practise their gunnery.
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