I can only justify this posting by the fact that Canada's metrication program started when Trudeau had been Prime Minister of Canada for less than two years. This morning's Globe and Mail carried a column by Allan Fotheringham who wrote: "My favourite Trudeau story--true, because my close friend Jean Chr�tien told it to me--involves a plane ride. "The young and nervous Indian Affairs minister, son of a millworker, was to fly to a constituency rally with the new prime minister, the product of Westmount, Harvard, LSE, and the Sorbonne. On the small government jet, Mr. Chr�tien took the window seat. "Mr. Trudeau, in the aisle seat, immediately opened his briefing papers on his lap and said nothing. "After 30 minutes of silence Mr. Chr�tien announced, 'It's raining outside.' "Mr. Trudeau, not raising his eyes from his papers, replied, "If it's raining, it must be outside.' "The remaining 30 minutes of the flight passed in silence."
