They couldn't have been that smart.
They moved from a country with winter temperatures which rarely drop below 14F even at night and where snow is a rarity to one with winter temperatures as low as -40F where snow covers the ground in many places for six whole months with severe, crippling windchill with a huge proportion of it lying within the Arctic Circle under a permanent ice cap. Canada is a country which is so cripplingly, mind-numbingly cold that you have even built whole cities underground to escape from it.
Those settlers moved from a country whose capital city, London, receives less annual rainfall than Paris, Rome, Naples and Toulouse (24in) to a country which has a city - Montreal - which has 40in of rainfall each year, almost twice that of London, and another (Toronto) which has 30 inches of rainfall a year.
They weren't as clever as you're making them out to be. A Canadian complaining about Britain's weather is the silliest thing I've heard all week.
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