Louis Jourdan wrote in USMA 12394: >At 9:26 -0400 01/04/23, Joseph B. Reid wrote: >>The Battle of Quebec reached its climax on Saturday. Final score was: 6000 >>police involved of whom 19 were injured, 392 protesters were arrested. > >I suspect these protesters being against globalization are also >against metrication. Because metric system is global... That is a new thought for me. We have had protesters in Canada as far back as I can remember. At first they were in support of the Soviet Union. After the Soviet Union collapsed their target has been multinational companies, which they think are out of democratic control. Some of them were against the Free Trade Agreement of 1988 (?) between Canada and the USA. They regard the multinationals as exploiting the labor and natural resources of developing coutries, lowering standards of living, supporting dictatorships, and in our countries throwing people out of work. The majority of multinationals have American headquarters and can be suspected of being anti-metric. We have elections only every four or five years; that is not really democratic. Our voices are not listened to by our governments. The imperial system versus the metric system is not a subject of conversation in Canada. The majority of the demonstrators are young and the Canadian demonstrators have been educated only in the metric system for the last 25 years. I have seen no sign that they are anti-metric, or that they have even considered the question. Joseph B. Reid 17 Glebe Road West Toronto M5P 1C8 Tel. 416 486-6071
