A recent letter sent to me by a retired couple in Canada.
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Dear Sir,
Thank you for bringing to my attention, your efforts to have metric conversion
mandatory, I had no idea there was a movement on in this regard.
My husband and I are seniors and have a difficult time converting to metric measures.
We have picked up a little, by osmosis over time. If metric was arbitrarily shoved
down our throats with mandatory laws, we would find it very difficult indeed. I
realize the children of today find metric measure relatively easy since they were
taught that system in school, we were taught imperial measures. Why the hurry, give
us time to absorb this. You only have to wait another 20 years or so and all of us
that were taught the imperial measure will be long gone, and you can have your way.
We feel, I suppose, the opposite to your views. Did we really need to convert to
metric at all? Going back to imperial now, would be as costly as metric was to bring
in, I am not suggesting that. In our country we cannot afford to change major
business practices at this time in our history. The U.S. realized the tremendous cost
to converting to metric measure and backed out of the agreement.
It has cost our country billions of dollars to convert to metric measure with no
obvious business advantage, that I can see. Most of our export is to the U.S. with
added cost to every adjustment to imperial measure. Every increase in cost eventually
rolls down the line to the consumers. We are pensioners and are very aware of the
affects of increased prices shrinking our pension.
I doubt you will agree with anything I have written, however, thank you for bringing
it to our attention, I shall oppose the mandatory time frame you are suggesting, by
writing to the appropriate powers that be. I vehemently oppose your suggested action.
I will also be writing to Jim Melenchuk to support his actions, or lack of action from
your point of view.
D. Beaty
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dear Sir,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thank you for bringing to my attention, your
efforts to have metric conversion mandatory, I had no idea there was a
movement on in this regard. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>My husband and I are seniors and have a
difficult time converting to metric measures. We have picked up a little,
by osmosis over time. If metric was arbitrarily shoved down our throats
with mandatory laws, we would find it very difficult indeed. I realize the
children of today find metric measure relatively easy since they were taught
that system in school, we were taught imperial measures. Why the
hurry, give us time to absorb this. You only have to wait another 20 years
or so and all of us that were taught the imperial measure will be long gone, and
you can have your way.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>We feel, I suppose, the opposite to your
views. Did we really need to convert to metric at all? Going back to
imperial now, would be as costly as metric was to bring in, I am not suggesting
that. In our country we cannot afford to change major business practices
at this time in our history. The U.S. realized the tremendous cost to
converting to metric measure and backed out of the agreement.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>It has cost our country billions of dollars to
convert to metric measure with no obvious business advantage, that I can
see. Most of our export is to the U.S. with added cost to every
adjustment to imperial measure. Every increase in cost eventually rolls
down the line to the consumers. We are pensioners and are very aware of
the affects of increased prices shrinking our pension. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I doubt you will agree with anything I
have written, however, thank you for bringing it to our attention, I shall
oppose the mandatory time frame you are suggesting, by writing to the
appropriate powers that be. <FONT face=Arial size=2>I vehemently
oppose your suggested action. I will also be writing to Jim Melenchuk
to support his actions, or lack of action from your point of view.
</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>D. Beaty</FONT></DIV>
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