Ma Be wrote in USMA 12185: >Now, the others would feel annoyed about the presence of metric first, and >would instinctly, automatically, go for the figure in parenthesis and >NEVER EVER care about *learning* what the first figure meant! This is >exactly the kind of scenario we face here in Canada with pricing by the >pound. If regulation were to change tomorrow about this and pound >pricing, for instance, were to be declared illegal, guess what? People >would probably scream bloody murder!!! That's right, after so many years >of dual pricing in this country (Canada) we're nowhere near to get "old >foggies" accustommed or even educated in metric pricing AT ALL! They >simply ignore the other pricing and get on with their lives, and that's a >FACT (unfortunately...)! Ma Be lives in Alberta, which ideologically is the most American province in Canada. Canada's newest political party is the Alliance. Its ideas are typically American. In the federal election, last November, the Alliance made an almost clean sweep of the four western provinces, but gained only one seat east of Winnipeg. I suspect the same ideological split occurs with regard to the metric system. Gregory Peterson who lives in Saskatchewan also complains about the anti-metric sentiment he encounters there. In the six eastern provinces we tend to like what distinguishes us from the USA, Quebec, with its Frecnh heritage, is theoretically completely pro-metric. Incidentally, it it is only loose food that is dual-priced. The delikatessens that I know price by 100 g. Joseph B. Reid 17 Glebe Road West Toronto M5P 1C8 Tel. 416 486-6071
