  We demonstrate the essential role of canonical suppression in strangeness
enhancement. The pattern of enhancement of strange and multistrange baryons
observed by the WA97 collaboration can be understood on this basis. Besides, it
is shown that in canonical approach strangeness enhancement is a decreasing
function of collision energy. It is the largest at $\sqrt{s}=8.7$ GeV where the
enhancement of $\Omega,\Xi$ and $\Lambda$ is of the order of 100, 20 and 3
respectively.
