Well, first of all the Dominion Bureau of Statistics made a survey in the spring of 1970, which showed that on balance the difference in the cost of living between Canadian cities and American cities was 5 % to the advantage, of course, to the Canadian cities.

Notes. Leonard Freel Woodcock (February 15 1911 – January 16 2001) was President of the United Auto Workers (UAW) and the first US ambassador to the People's Republic of China. While Leonard had been born in the United States his parents were British (though Mary was Irish by birth) and mother and son returned to the UK for the duration of the war.