Canada

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 26, 24 December 1917, Page 2

Canada

THE LIQUOR PROBLEM. Press Association—Copyright, Austra lian' and N.Z. Cable Association Ottawa, December 21. The Government has decided to prohibit the importation of liquor, and later to suppress the manufacture domestically of liquor, with the ultimate object of enforcing prohibition throughout the Dominion. Seveneighths of the country is already under provincial laws. Prohibition in Canada does not mean what we understand it to mean in this Dominion. “Absolute prohibition exists in Canada, with the exception of the Quebec Province,” says Mr Frank Meadowcroft, of Wellington, who returned from that country last week. “It is anticipated that prohibition will be carried in that province in the near future. That does not mean that no drink may be obtained at all for home consumption, but it must not be drunk in public, such as in a restaurant or cabaret.”